Greetings community! I feel blessed in that last Saturday, I went to an estate sale that my local woodworking club (NTWA) sent an email out for. I was only one of two people that showed up and not only did I meet some really fine folks, I got what I feel to be a great deal on a bunch of equipment. $2650 for the following:
Lie-Neilsen No. 4 Bronze plane beautiful!
9 Bessey clamps including 5 kr3(s)
a lot of very nice spalted, birdseye and quilted maple planks
1 Oneida 2 stage dust collection (V-system 1500 type from 2002)
Enough 6,5 and 4” duct to plum my garage with blastgates
1 Powermatic model 60A 8” jointer (very good condition) (no helical head, yet…)
1 Powermatic model 15 15” planer (very good condition) (no helical head, yet…)
1 60 Gallon lightly used Kobalt A/C (2008 model) and…
One very heavy duty hand crafted workbench with a Veritas® Twin-Screw Tail Vise and a Jorgensen Rapid Acting Bench Vise w/serveral brass bench dogs.
I currently have a Dewalt DW735 13” planer and I’ve had real good luck with it. I’ve been reading a lot of folks not liking the heavier floor model planers due to rollers leaving marks on the wood, not as forgiving for finer cuts, snipe and inability to quickly set the depth of cut. This particular planer has the infeed and outfeed rollers and not the cast iron beds. My questions are as follows:
Is it better to have the cast iron beds rather than rollers? Will this help with the snipe?
What is the difference between the model 15 and model 15S planers? I know the HH is helical head and I plan on putting a byrd sheilix in both of these bad boys…
Are these type of planers really that unforgiving when it comes to marking up the work piece with the cast rollers or making lighter passess? If so, can the cast roller be replace with stiff rubber rollers like whats in the lunch box planers?
The dewalt has a chip extractor that forces the chips into the duct collection hose. I’ve read some folks complain about chip extraction on the PM planer… Does it force the chips out like the dewalt? Is this really a problem with this planer?
I’d like to think I have a good planer here and maybe it just needs to be dialed in correctly.
Thanks in advance for your reading and considering this…
regards,
bill