Each year, my nomination remains constant; a DeWALT 3-1/4" hand plane. About the only use it's seen is to knock down protruding edges of studs when I'm framing a wall with less than perfectly straight studs. I'm unable to find a use for it in cabinet or furniture making.
What power tool do you regret buying/receiving?
David
I think a google search of a few weeks ago will reveal the answers to this same question.
I missed that one. Audience participation today will undoubtedly suffer.
David
Le> I think a google search of a few weeks ago will reveal the answers to this
Naw, my power plane is great. Of course, I only paid $3 for it at a garage sale. If I paid $75, it would be close to the top of the list.
I found a lot of chatter about Dremel; was that the thread you are referring to? Sidenote: you can't search Google Groups for any date in
2005 unless you search all dates. Google's aware of the problem and as of late last night are still working to fix it. (Or so they promised me)David
Le> I think a google search of a few weeks ago will reveal the answers to this
Good point. I think I've gotten about three dollars usage from that sucker. :) Don't remember what it cost, but it was not a bargain for me.
David
toller wrote:
I was just thinking about buying one of these to shave down some sticking doors. What's so bad about them?
Chuck
plane.
You guys ever watch "BIG" on the Discovery Channel? They built a BIG electric guitar, 9x the size and used a 12" power planer at one point.
Rotozip.
Cuts holes for outlet boxes in drywall, but only if you use metal boxes. Other than that I haven't found anything useful for this thing to do.
IIRC the thread did include the Dremel and probably went back to before Christmas.
Mine is the PC detail sander, and I predict it will be the winner (or looser).
Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 8:52am (EST-3) snipped-for-privacy@invalid.com (David) claims: Each year, my nomination remains constant; a DeWALT 3-1/4" hand plane. About the only use it's seen is to knock down protruding edges of studs when I'm framing a wall with less than perfectly straight studs. I'm unable to find a use for it in cabinet or furniture making. What power tool do you regret buying/receiving?
Then make me a deal, and I'll take it off your hands, so you don't have the stress anymore. I could definitely use it.
I'd say depends. I thought about it, and I'd say maybe my detail sander. Yes, it works fine, but the projects I'm doing, and any planned on for some time, don't call for it's use. I do have some other tools I'm not using either, but as I do plan on using them in the not too distant future, I don't term them "useless".
I don't regret ANY power tool I've bought, and would never even think of regretting any I was given.
JOAT Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- =A0Dale Carnegie
Are you anywhere near Milwaukee or Madison? I'll give you a hell of a deal.
Hi David:
Someone gave me a Ryobi detail sander about 5 years ago. I've used it once.
Regards, John.
A few years ago a friend gifted me with a Sears Craftsman detail sander, a dinky little motorized tool that resembles my old Norelco triple-head shaver except with three little sandpaper pads, each about the size of a quarter, instead of the "rotary blades" the razor was equipped with. What a POS. I think the shaver had more horsepower, and I know it was more useful. In addition to having less torque than your average electric pencil sharpener, this "tool" was rendered even more worthless because one or more of the cheesy plastic pads upon which the sanding disks were mounted constantly popped off during use.
Lee
I have one of the planers. I hear this all the time, and I use mine for all kinds of things. There was an article in FWW, PWW or one of the magazines a couple of issues ago that discussed flattening a large board. I was doing a large top to a dresser and was using hand planes. This article used the electric hand planer to take down high areas. I tried it and I admit, it worked very well. You can finesse it well (just like a belt sander) if you are careful. After the large areas are done, go back to the hand planes. Can't say that any of my tools are useless (except maybe the drill sharpener that I got at Homier). I haven't used my old right angle drill adapter more than once in 30 years (except about 3 wks ago) or my Fein or Sears detail sanders, but once in a while they have some uses, especially the Fein. When it does get used, nothing would do the job better. Dremmel tools are not used much, but they are the only solution at times. I don't use my wood lath much anymore since I have not built early american furniture in about
25 years, but I would not want to be without it.Beyond any doubt. Worst tool ever made by a reputable company.
What, a newsreader that posts without including any context, you mean?
I saw that episode. AAMOF, it's the ONLY episode of Big that I've seen. I had no idea that there was such a large hand held planer .
David
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And destroys the vapour barrier you've carefully sealed around electrical boxes
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