Rigid Joiner

[David Ewers]

Seems that Home depot is selling off their current model of 6" joiner. Its $80 off at this time. Is it good or bad?

[Stephen R]

It's good.

Stephen R.

[Steve]

One the other hand, it might not be much of a problem since one bright light shining star HD tool corral worker proudly told me that the Ryobi AP1300 thickness planer blades would fit the Ridgid 6-1/2-inch jointer/planer "because they're double edged"!

Yeah, right. That's making me consider returning the machine and just going elsewhere.

[Steve]

On the other hand, though, one Bright Light Shining Star tool corral employee told me that the Ryobi AP1300 (thickness planer) knives would fit the Ridgid 6-1/2-inch jointer just fine because "they're double edged"!

With reassurance like that I'm considering returning it and buying something else from somewhere else.

[oakman]

Perhaps a new model is coming out so the old stock must make room... but since Home Depot charges something like 21 % or so interest on their credit cards I wouldn't suspect a price cut of 80 dollars eminates from the goodness of their hearts.

A flaw in the product might have been discovered after zillions of them were manufactured and the product line is discontinued... such as in the case of a certain model number of Porter Cables routers... so now they entice the public into getting their defective product by a price slash.

" Let the buyer beware " as the saying goes. And besides, would you want your surgeon to operate on you using low bid tools ???

[Traves W. Coppock]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 04:09:02 -0500, [e-mail] Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

umm, you don't read much about tools do ya?

do yourself a favor, and search the archives for the emmerson/home depot/ridgid discontinued machines threads. . .

[TomL]

Nor does he read Owners Manuals. OK, I'll contribute to your delinquency just this one time. Parts are readily available here:

[Grandpa]

[Grandpa]

[Kevin Wilcox]

I have the same jointer and the same trouble finding replacement knives. I bought a set of knives at Sears and they seem to work just fine. I don't think the Ridgid knives are out of the ordinary, so I bet Delta or Jet knives would probably work too.