Hy,
I’m an italian shaper ( I’m sorry for my bad language) and I need your help and your experience about planers…
It’s time for me to buy a Skil 100 planer. I would it, I love it.
I’m looking for it everyday on ebay but I don’t understand the right price. 350$ is cheap or expensive?
Some tip for shipping and import to Italy? shipping amount 150-180$…
Thanks people.
I wait your answer, thanks again.
Davide
P.S. I’m pride of my tools but Skil 100 is an icon of shaping!!!
under this my tools…
…hello, do you have a pretty good set up there man.
A skill 100 is not better than the F30A that you have; in fact the Hitachi is even powerful and heavy.
What do you need is a modified planer. Even with the Skill you just to do a bit of modifying.
-350 is cheap.
-better to go with the 7.5 amp
-To shape HP boards under 6 is better the smaller Hitachi but modified.
-You can modify the smaller and the F30A.
350 seems about right for a stock one in my opinion.
Sold all my Hitachi’s.
Skil’s, Bosch, and Rockwell for me.
Buy a Skil and have it for life.
I bought my Skil 100 new, in 1964, for $150 dollars. Just shaped a small gun with it last week. It’s still going strong, many brushes, triggers, and several cords later. Thousands of boards, both foam and balsa, have been kissed by its blades.
Kissed by the blades of a Skil.
Used by the hands with Skill.
I like it.
Barry you’re a tease. Man they look fantastic.
The one all the way in the back is my first planer.
Craftsman I bought as a teen.
(Cheaper than a Skil).
All Skil products.
Now I’m focused on this:
What do you think about?
Barry Snyder suggest me the 7.5 A but is 5.5 Ampere, not 7.5
If I not wrong 5.5A is 630Watt and 7.5 is 860Watt…
Actually on ebay I found only 5.5 Ampere
A 5.5 amp Skil 100 got the job done, in the Balsa and long board era. It will get the job done in the short board era.
Most Skils are for 110volt power input, whereas the F30 can be either 110v or 220v (110v F30s are hard to find in USA, and F30As with the Clark Mods are even more rare). Isn’t Italiano electric power 220v?
Yes, in Italy electric power is at 220V but I will buy a trasformator 220/110… about 80-100€
I’ll defer to Bill T., but consider the Skil was designed to plane hard wooden doors, etc. It sure as hell will plane foam with a little wood stringer. I have a 5.5 amp Skil, too. I don’t know how old mine is. Look’n for a ‘skul 100’ now. Mike
WhyKnot…
I can appreciate your desire
To have the best.
Checked you out…
And you work is exceptional!
My advice…
Wait and seek out the 7.5 amp Skil
It is more than the power.
It is the blades!
The type 5 is the last
It uses a reversible blade.
I get mine thru England a perfect fit
An f-n sharp.
I mow a lot of USB orange
As light a density as we can get.
And even coasting no rip.
With a good 5.5 (type 3-4)
Keep your blades sharp
I used my old 5.5 to death…
Here is some planer porn.
Yeah, went Hitachi as big money to replace my love, till the “Precision” came out and the prices fell.
Then I found my “”Girl”
Be patient and hunt well!
Eh, my cousin lives in Italy he wants me to visit, but sez the surf sucks.
Tell me something good
I miss his “Grappa”
Thank you Matty for your suggestion, you got the right.
I wait until find a 7.5 Amp.
Do you like “GRAPPA”??? I’m happy!!! me too.
I live in north of Italy and for us grappa is the drink of friendship and being together!!!
Meanwhile I modified my small Hitachi like the pictures you posted me last week,
this is the result:
Why_Not,
Don’t be too quick to think the 5.5 amp Skil 100, is a sub par tool. It was the industry standard for close to fifty years. Still is, in my book. I have a 5.5, and a 7.5 amp Skil 100. I like them both. All but a dozen, of the thousands of boards I’ve shaped, were done with a 5.5 amp Skil 100. The 5.5 amp tool gets the job done.
I heard from Petec that the 5.5 are usually a better buy as many have never seen a surfboard. In his experience the 7.5s have usually seen much more abuse…
This was a conversation we had a while back and I am not a representative of pete haha
