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eribaMotters":puuyfybs said:Your budget has gone up!
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El Barto":2qydvuyq said:I’ve read a lot of good things about the DeWalt DW733. Is it worth looking out for a used one?
El Barto":37cbz44p said:Evening all. I'm looking to get a planer/thicknesser. I don't have much to spend, a few hundred quid really, what should I be looking for?
Would something like this be any good? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Elektra-Beck ... 1438.l2649
I don't have any kind of dust extraction, will that be a problem? Any advice most welcome!
Thanks.
El Barto":13agpba9 said:Thanks for that. I’ll have a look at the extractor too...
cutting42":3gdbquks said:El Barto":3gdbquks said:I’ve read a lot of good things about the DeWalt DW733. Is it worth looking out for a used one?
I have the DW733s which is the one you want as it is a planer thicknesser rather than the DW733 which is just a thicknesser so check for the "s"
I bought mine second hand from a UKW person who had sadly passed on and it has been brilliant. You can still get brand new blades and the quality of cut is excellent.
I paid around £250 but it was a long time ago, I would say anything under £400 would be worth it.
One here for £300 currently
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dewalt-DW733 ... SwBjdZ~uPM
A tattier one here for £100
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DeWALT-12328 ... SwHNxaAclX
MikeJhn":2isx65wc said:El Barto":2isx65wc said:MikeJhn":2isx65wc said:Its not assembled and needs a lot of work, but if I did not have a PT already and was in the market for one I would buy that at £220.00 bargain if it works and is complete.
Mike
Thanks Mike. Are parts still available for it? And what kind of work does it need?
El Barto, asking that question indicates that Matt's assumption is probably correct and you don't know the amount of work needed in which case I agree with Matt, don't touch it if you don't know what you are doing, just getting the cutting block parallel with the thicknessing bed will be bad enough let alone the two planing beds, but if you know someone who does know about these things, then it still could be worth a look.
Mike
custard":1fu492ey said:Barto, almost every time I've been in a hobbyist's workshop and there's been a need to use the P/T the owner will look embarrassed and mutter about needing to change the knives. Sure enough if you use it the workpiece bounces and rattles over the knives because they're so blunt, or you have to push so hard to overcome the resistance that it's dangerous.
Why do the majority of hobbyists run their knives long past the replacement date? The short answer is that on most cheaper machines it's a faff to change knives, they're not using the machine often enough to get proficient at knife changes, so it's a job that just keeps getting postponed.
A key question about any machine is "how easy are knife changes?" If it's a complete pain then you'll either have to be superhumanly diligent to keep the P/T maintained, or it'll just end up as an expensive shelf to park your coffee!
Great - mind popping over to the UK and setting mine?MikeJhn":u8sko0qn said:Perhaps I'm a bit OCD, but I quite enjoy setting the blades on my PT, I get immense satisfaction from getting them set exactly as I want them, especially when I run the first piece through and it has no snipe.
Mike
moosepig":19nkohqx said:I'm in the market for a small-but-good-quality PT at the moment and have been looking at the same stuff as El Barto on Gumtree and the 'bay.
I was puzzled that the Metabo HC260 appears to be over £100 cheaper new than the Record Power PT260 despite at first appearance being the same machine (apart from the included wheel kit on the RP).
One thing I discovered is that the Metabo 260, as sold by FFX, comes with disposable knives, and will not take HSS or carbide replacements unless you buy a conversion kit (part 0911030845) which is another £50. The PT260 comes with HSS knives as standard, no conversion kit needed. Also the weights appear to be so different as to suggest something else majorly different - 71kg for the Metabo; 80kg for the Record Power. Who knows what those differences are.
Forum user pollys13 has had all sorts of trouble getting her Metabo up and running, thread here: continuing-problems-setting-planer-knife-height-t107469.html
That sort of customer service would put me off the Metabo even if it were an identical machine. I gather that Record Power have a decent customer service reputation.
An excellent nearly-new PT260 came up recently on Gumtree - shame it's in Co. Antrim!
Best deal on a new PT260 at the moment appears to be Scott+Sargeant, and go to Horsham and collect it yourself (delivery charges are anything from £40 to £70 depending on where you look but it's free to collect from S+S).
Hope this is useful.
Could be either, but it's more likely by far to be the latter...El Barto":gtg3lr8a said:Still on the hunt for a PT. Would this be a cool project or just a massive waste of time and money? It looks ok except for the motor...
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 2379383800
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