Any way to tell how old my pro planer is?

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Re: Any way to tell how old my pro planer is?

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JPG wrote:
reible wrote:Perhaps it was more who you talked to at shopsmith rather then anything else.

Anyway here is the information that indicates pretty well when your machine was made.

ScreenHunter_25 Mar. 24 20.16.jpg

Ed
OK Ed, how does one 'get' to the SPT SN charts. I apparently have fergit. :o
Scroll down on this page:

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/faq/

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Re: Any way to tell how old my pro planer is?

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reible wrote:
JPG wrote:
reible wrote:Perhaps it was more who you talked to at shopsmith rather then anything else.

Anyway here is the information that indicates pretty well when your machine was made.

ScreenHunter_25 Mar. 24 20.16.jpg

Ed
OK Ed, how does one 'get' to the SPT SN charts. I apparently have fergit. :o
Scroll down on this page:

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/faq/

Ed
Nothing like a 'direct' path! :rolleyes: :D
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Re: Any way to tell how old my pro planer is?

Post by dynabase »

Thank you guys that was more info than I could have hoped. Since they have all the date code for the different tools I'm going to look up all of my tools tomorrow. That should be fun.

Thanks again

Michael
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