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89 of 89 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
De Walt Planer Review, February 9, 2001
I've owned my planer for a little over 2 years. My comments are as follows:1. It produces an excellent surface. 2. It is prone to having material occasionaly stick on it's way through the planer. This is generally the result of pitch build-up, especially when planing pine. The problem can be solved by waxing the infeed and outfeed tables and cleaning the rubber infeed and outfeed rollers. 3. It is EXTREMELY loud. It produces a very high-pitched and irritating scream. This can be mostly solved with hearing protection, but with even the best, you'll know it's running! 4. The knives stay sharp for a long time, but are prone to chipping. This leaves a raised line in the board, but since the chips are usually small, the lines are easy to sand out. Fortunately, the knives are easy to change. 5. A dust collector is necessary for best operation. If you operate without dust collection, chips will fall back on the rollers and leave dents in your wood. My shop vac couldn't keep up. I finally bought a Jet DC 1100 and solved both problems. 6. The depth-of-cut gauge and turrent depth stops are very handy. 7. It is a heavy machine. Furthermore, the dust port prevents the outfeed table from folding. This is not a problem for me since I use it mounted on a stand. But, if I wanted a more portable unit, I might pass it by for the smaller Delta or Makita. Conclusion: This is an excellent tool, but it's not perfect. I would give it 5 stars for cut and features, but have down-graded it slightly because of the problems with material occasionally sticking while passing through the planer and because of noise. If the choice was available, I would give it 4 1/2 stars.
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