Bench top planers

[No skills]

Greetings one and all,

Does anybody know if any of the small bench top planers have a fairly quiet induction motor?? or am I doomed to a noisy brush motored horror...


Thanks

 

[OPJ]

Of the ones I've seen (SIP, Rexon), they all have noisy brush motors. Not quite as loud as one of the benchtop thicknessers but it's certainly not an induction model.

 

[carlb40]

Now do you mean a planer as in

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ... rod370404/


or as you said brush motor this?

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-tr ... prod21831/

If it is the latter, then i have not seen any with an induction motor - well not bench ones.

If it's the first one, then charnwood do a bench top one, but has a lovely loud brush motor :mrgreen:

 

[No skills]

I do have a cheapo thicknesser hidden away somewhere, its got the standard bastid noisy brush motor. Im after an actual planer/jointer (if thats the correct term??) like the first link but bench top or small footprint at least.

 

[carlb40]

Depending on budget how about something like the electra beckum HC 260? Quite compact in length. Induction motor

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Elektra-Becku ... 41715beba7

 

[No skills]

Didnt think to look for Elektra Beckum, ironicly I had been looking at the Metabo one as a 'save up for' alternative - as its only for hobby ATM and the odd very rare paying job I was hoping to find something smaller but good quality (if you see what I mean).

 

[carlb40]

The way i look at it is this. Yes you can buy smaller

http://www.charnwood.net/shop/product/c ... x-5?cid=19

But again a brush motor, so noisy as hell.


But why by small and be disapointed and want bigger soon after getting it?

So buy right and buy once

 

[No skills]

Yeah I know... Unless somebody crops up with a small induction model I'll have to keep saving for a while. Funny thing is I wouldnt of minded the noise a couple of years ago, since moving to our new yard (which is noisy as feck all day) I just cant hack using very noisy tools for any length of time in my own time. Strange eh.

 

[carlb40]

I'm like that now aswell. I hate using my axi thicknesser. I am considering trying to get a planer/ thicknesser. But i really like the axi planer ( older version of what i linked to). Great for the money, had it 7/8 years now and it's never missed a beat

 

[Nick Gibbs]

Noise is really important, for the neighbours, for your ears, and because it disrupts concentration. I think it is more important on a planer than a thicknesser, because using a planer requires more skill and thought.

Nick

 

[No skills]

You need a Wallace type to stick an induction motor on the thicknesser He has a Wadkin planer for sale as it happens but too far for me I'm afraid.


@ Nick

Some good points there - at work noise and concentration go hand in hand for me (cut panels out of a shipping container with a 9" grinder is a good example :shock: ) so thats not much of an issue, but of course the neighbours are...

 

[Andy RV]

Wallace has a little 6" wadkin in the for sale section, that's far better than any of the new equipment around that budget. I've got one, it's a small but fantastically built machine, very accurate and smooth.

 

[carlb40]

How far is this from you?

for-sale-aw106pt-planer-thicknesser-t68634.html

 

[No skills]

Hmm, need to go and have a big think about the 'workshop' and its future.

Thanks everybody for the input.