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By all accounts it's a very good unit with the big plus of having a helical cutting head.
That said I wouldn't trust the lifting table mechanism either. It will be fine for the first year or two but as with all things like this the more it's used the more slop will increase in the mechanism. It's one more thing to go wrong and waste time calibrating - let's face it a planer that doesn't plane square is a VERY expensive paperweight.
It will cost more but I'd be tempted to get this planer with this thicknesser for the following reasons:
- You can have the two machines running at the same time, or at the least not waste time converting between planer and thicknesser
- Higher capacity thicknesser.
- Easier to calibrate planing plate.
- You can have the two machines running at the same time, or at the least not waste time converting between planer and thicknesser
Bobbo
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one for @bobbo or @Airhead perhaps
looking to upgrade our workshop thicknesser from a metabo one, to possibly this Axminster one.
The strange method of the tables swinging up out of the way to go between planing and thicknessing causes me pause for thought. Need I worry?
Any other suggestions?