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When in NM, you learn to expect anything you want is a long way offalgale wrote:Wow. Not sure which is more amazing. That you were prepared to do a 1000 mile round trip to get this. Or that the owner let you plane with it for an hour before it blew up.
And the irony is, had you simply disassembled the planer and loaded it into your car, you almost certainly would have discovered that the pulley was loose before the damage was done!rjent wrote:What a disappointment! I drove 500 miles or a 1000 miles round trip (I am in a room on the way home) and I am not bringing the planer home. We fired it up and did some pretty serious planing with it. About an hour into it the pulley came burning through the cover and off of the blade shaft. The shaft is hammered. I feel pretty confident that I could save it, but it just wasn't worth the gamble. that shaft and head is about 400 bucks from the mothership (I checked). The pulley and cover would only be about 30 bucks, but I just didn't want to take the gamble.
So, I am back on the hunt for a planer. I am still not convinced that a ProPlaner is absolutely what I want, I would try a SS mounted one, particularly seeing how the Pro works. The PowerPro would be the perfect powersource.
Dick
I am glad to hear that! I may have found another that is mounted and not a pro. I really like the idea of using the PowerPro as the power source. I hope to go look at it in a few days....dlbristol wrote:I live in Colorado and we do some traveling as well. My decision on the planers was really based on one thing, Space. I do not have room for stand alone stuff. I made a storage stand for the planer, jointer and other parts. The stand is just high enough to let me mount the planer with out to much lifting.
I like the set up I have, and can't really comment on the other set up, but even if it was 10 times better, I would have to stay with what I have. I am probably exactly what SS had in mind when the designed the M-V.
Yeah, and either way, I would have come home empty handed .....BuckeyeDennis wrote:And the irony is, had you simply disassembled the planer and loaded it into your car, you almost certainly would have discovered that the pulley was loose before the damage was done!
