What are your impressions of this older semi-industrial planer..it wieghs
> 350 lbs. Its a combination 12 planer and 6 in jointer.
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> I acquired one recently and it seems to to a wonderful job and its major
> accurate and heavy duty solid steel tables. It does have some snipe, but
> not bad. And from what I understand even the modern bench top better
> quality planers have some snipe.
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> any thoughts?
For its size it's always been a great performer....in our area it is quite common & I have not seen any design flaws but watch the fan end armature bearing for overheating as I have said before.