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moocher
Bobbo
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: