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   Jimma | Apr 27, 2005 08:06pm | #1

   Are they the equivalent of those found on the new Jet and Powermatic planers?

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   gbinplano | Apr 27, 2005 08:44pm | #2

   Dunno. I've seen neither them nor the Wixey yet. Here's the Wixey site:http://www.wixey.com/Greg

   Edited 4/27/2005 1:48 pm ET by gbinplano

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   Jimma | Apr 27, 2005 09:50pm | #3

   It doesn't look like the ones I've recently seen. For one thing, it mounts on the outfeed. The one's I looked at were on the infeed side for setting the depth of the cut which would allow you to match the thickness of an existing board as well as set the planer for an initial thickness pass. Also, they were on cabinet-type planers (floor mounted).

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   gbinplano | May 01, 2005 06:37pm | #4

   Jim, I installed the Wixey DRO on my Delta 22-580. Instructions and mounting hardware are provided for many surface planers. It mounts on the infeed side and accurately provides depth of cut settings in both fractions and decimals. It also provides the ability to set an incremental cut depth for a final pass. The Wixey planer DRO is featured on both the front and back covers of Woodcraft's May catalog. I got mine in five days directly from Wixey with no shipping charge. My installed pictures are in this post:http://forums.taunton.com/tp-knots/messages?msg=23417.1Greg

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   Jimma | May 01, 2005 07:06pm | #5

   Thanks for the update, Greg. Looks like you'll be planing in Plano! With a high degree of accuracy, no doubt. After seeing your photos and looking at the Wixey website, it looks like the model described won't work for my 15-inch planer. However, since there's a Woodcraft store not far from me, I'll drop by and see if that's really the case. I appreciate your forwarding the info.

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   gbinplano | May 02, 2005 03:48am | #6

   Jim, I don't know what it won't fit. As ingenious as most woodworkers are, it's likely to fit a basketball ;o). Seriously, I am looking to modify mine to work on a Performax drum sander next. The secret seems to be to find a rigid spot to mount the scale and its bracket and a place to affix the guage linkage to the movable body of the tool. Once this relationship is created, it will calibrate to whatever cut is made. The base of the scale needs to be level with the bed of the planer or sanding conveyer but not necessarily touching it. It seems that it could also be easily adapted to work with plunge devices such as drill presses, morticers and perhaps routers. Once some folks cleverer than I get a shot at it, it will probably fit a basketball!!!Greg

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   Jimma | May 02, 2005 04:11pm | #7

   Until I can actually touch one of those things I'll just have to suspend judgement. Maybe today or tomorrow when I get to Woodcraft. In the meantime I'll start looking around for a good basketball.