Pretty much right out of the gate on a project of twin corner hutches, my roughly ten year old Delta planer has given up the ghost. Was planing some stock Thursday night when I noticed that something was amiss. I had numerous pieces to plane and by the end of the round of planing, I noticed that the sound emitted by the Delta machine was less than the beginning of the round. Sure enough, a check of the thickness of the beginning boards and the end boards revealed a slight difference. A subsequent depth change and a firm set of the cutterhead lock ended it all. The cutterhead lock mechanism completely stripped. The mechanism must have been going as I was working and throwing the thickness setting off.
The planer has been in the fix-it shop in the past – the lift system was out of whack. Well, the planer has served me well for many years, but I wasn’t going to have it fixed again. The on-off switch had gone bad and well - the money was better served buying a new unit. One PITA is that I am expecting new blades for the Delta any day now in the mail. Anyone needing a pair for the Delta 22-560 12 ½” model planer can email or PM me and get a good price on them.
Well, as fortune would have it, this Dewalt followed me home today after work and wouldn’t you know it, it had been in the plans to buy this unit over this winter! Funny how fate works. HeHe.
The planer sits in the pic below, right where it has always been intended to go. Almost two years ago, I bought Mr. Beckers old 1 ½ hp Oneida dust collection system and the drop right above the planer was put there with this eventual planer in mind. Over this winter, I will be re-doing the entire thirty foot plus distance of the workbench top along the one wall of my shop and this planer will be built into the widened workbench surface to provide for a massive (read that at least) 8 foot infeed and outfeed capability.
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