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   AlanTurner | Apr 10, 2003 03:44pm | #1

   That machine looks awfully much like my Woodtek 20" planer, from Woodworker's Supply, which was about 1350, shipped, with mobile base.  Other importers, including GI, carry this as well.  Wonder what the differences are?  Mine is a 3hp, single ph.  It has been a good machine for me.  Hope you enjoy your new toy.

   Alan

   Edit --

   Looked at the specs.  Your feed rates seem higher, and the weight is less by over 100 lbs.  You have 3 rollers per side; I have one.

   
   

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   Edited 4/10/2003 8:47:54 AM ET by s4s

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   davamoore | Apr 10, 2003 07:42pm | #2

   Alan --

   A 20" planer???  Oh, this is one secret you shouldn't have revealed... I'll be loading up my car for that trip to Philadelphia in June!

   David"The world that was not made is not won by what is done" -- Mundaka Upanishad

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   AlanTurner | Apr 10, 2003 09:11pm | #3

   Are you grabbing the antique 1500 lb jointer as well?  I just want you to have a heavy enough truck so there are no breakdowns on the way back to the windy city.

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   davamoore | Apr 11, 2003 01:23am | #4

   Are you grabbing the antique 1500 lb jointer as well? 

   Don't I wish!!! <grin>  Actually, I've heard through the grapevine that there's an old patternmaker's or architectural millwork company in the area here, that's going out of business and selling all of its tools and machinery.  I don't have the details yet -- if I had them, I'd have been there yesterday! -- but I hope to get the full story soon.

   As an aside:  I bought a 400 lb. stone statue when I was in Bali two years ago.  I managed to get it shipped 6,000 miles from there to my garage in Chicago -- where it sits, blessing the snowblower and garden tools while still enclosed in the shipping structure that was built around it.  Somehow, the final 162 miles to my place in Michigan, where we have "just" the spot, seems to be the furthest distance of all! 

   David"The world that was not made is not won by what is done" -- Mundaka Upanishad

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   AlanTurner | Apr 11, 2003 02:14am | #5

   Better get on it.  Closing shops are the cat's meow for good older and heavy tools.  One went out of business here recently, and I think there is still a 16" Cresent jointer the fellow is asking $1900 for.  That is a decent buy, but it is 3 phase, DMD, making it a tougher conversion.   Maybe the way to convert it is to buy it, then buy a replacement carbide helical head, and just have them make the head longer, to hold a pulley or two, and use a belt drive single phase.  He had an Oliver 299, a 24" planer, with the grinding attachment.  Think it went for about $2000 or so.  He has several larger bandsaws as well.  Fortuneately for me, the entrance to my basement shop is only a 28" door, with stairs, which is my primary limitation, aside from the usual -- $$.  At this shop I did get a Stanley 192, which has the spur, and used it recently on some hard maple, to rabbet a set of drawer bottoms I had glued up.  Worked great.  $25 - not bad.  Also got a pattermaker's marking guage, which is suddenly my favorite marking guage.  Wish I had another. Instead of a wheel on the end, it has a sort of point, and makes a really clean cut.  Also, an Emmert No. 2, not yet mounted.  And possibly another, a No. 1; I'll know tomorrow.

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   adavalle | Apr 15, 2003 09:23pm | #6

   Did you get the info regarding the shop that was closing.  I also live in Chicago and would be interested.

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   davamoore | Apr 17, 2003 11:04pm | #7

   Sorry Al, I haven't heard anything.  I sent a note to my contact but he hasn't replied.

   David"The world that was not made is not won by what is done" -- Mundaka Upanishad