any of the guys that use this planner often have any tips on particular matinance for this brand? Or even set up tips with this planner. I had been using a stock 7 amp craftsman.
The # 1 tip with this planer; Make sure you have plenty of blanks. #2. Don’t let it sit around. Shape up some foam. You’ll hurt her feelings if you don’t pay proper attention to Fräulein Bosch. She likes to get it on. I think Morrison said something similar once in a song. Lowel
Your gonna love it , cuts like butta .
Love mine. Try not to plane the cord. Or get it wrapped up in your shirt tail.
Seriously you are going to love that little sports car.
All the best
Yeah I can’t wait I had to wait an extra week for it to ship but I’m ready to get mowing
I love mine. Blow it out with your air compressor after a session.
Treat it better than your woman, it works just as well in the Southern Hemisphere, I reckon I have been using mine for three years now with no issues, I just need to learn to do it justice…
Love mine.
Several hundred boards and still going strong.
She’s my hot little Frauline in a blue dress.
Sold all my Hitachi’s.
This or my Skil.
Cuts cleaner and quieter than my Skill with new blades.
Shortened the cord for quick changing.
Those of you that use vacs with it how’d you set it up
Do you use a vac?
I’m pretty sure PeteC has dust ports for a vac hose. Or, you can make your own out of resin and glass. Easy to do. An overhead swingarm mounted to the wall seems to me the best set up. I think Bud from Hi. came up with it.
I hooked mine up to a two bag dust collector. Friiggin vacs make to much noise. I had the dust collector in another room.
The hose ran on a wire (like a clothesline) with sail pulleys. I stole that idea from pictures Yater’s shaping room.
I bet you youngsters have never heard of a clothesline.
The clothesline set up drove me nuts. The dust vac is loud and gets in the way of tunes. Best to have it outside in it’s own room. The swingarm mounts dead center of the length and is attached to the wall but can pivot 180 degrees. I comes out far enough to be centered on the width. Cord and hose is up and out of the way but gives accsess to the entire stand. This minimizes flex hose length and connects to a ridgid line to the vac. Genius whoever came up with that… But the best thing we did in a buddy’s shack was to build cabinets only six inches deep with doors under the side lights. These have a toe kick of six inches from floor. We put in a register hooked to the shop vac with a blast gate for on/off and simply sweep everything to the register and zoom, dust is gone. Primo.
Tblank, I’d love to see a pic of your setup. Thanks
Mr. Tate, you are assuming that I am smart enough to post photos. Sorry. When it comes to these infernal machines, I’m as sharp as a river rock. I may be wrong, but I think it was Bud from Hawaii that posted the swingarm first. Ridgid piping along the wall to a right angle coming out from the wall. The 90 deg. joint is not glued but supported by a hinged plywood gusset. That joint becomes a swivel that the flex hose is attached to. The toe kick vaccuum register is in a buddies shack about 200 miles from me so, no help there either…I know, teats on a boar hog.
One 3’’ PVC line along wall.
One end goes to a vac system. Internal motor. Quiet.
“Tee” in center of wall line.
One elbow swivels in Tee.
Swings out to half of rooms width.
Flexible hose to planer.
Run cord along hose with sliding connectors so it won’t bind up.
Have a short cord on all my planers for quick connect.
Easy peezy.
Hey Barry, How about a shot of the swingarm folded out for Mr. Tate? Es possible?
I did clothesline and the swingarm. In the end I went back to no hoses at all.
My Mentor Jim Phillips once said “If you don’t like dust you don’t need to shape surfboards” (or something to that effect)
Ask and Ye shall recieve.
This the best shot I could find.
Sorry it’s so dark.
It is a shaping room after all.
