Multico 9" Planer

[Juggler]

Does anyone know about this planer? I bought it last year from ebay for £127, silly of me not to go check it out as the tables are slightly out and you have to either use brute force to get anything through the thicknessing attachment or lower the outfeed table slightly.
However, i am reselling it on Ebay as i speak, and it finishes in 2 Hours (been on for 10 days), people have bid, but noone has asked to see it! currently it's at £225 which obviously i'm mahoosively overwhelmed with!!! :lol: :lol: but does anyone know why?? i didn't think it was worth that much, and i would have been happy selling it for £90 (reserve price) beginning to think it may be an antique!!! :shock:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Multico-8-Pla...5QQihZ018QQcategoryZ42283QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Paul

 

[DaveL]

Paul,

I have a Multico planer, not the same model as yours it does not have the rollers on the ends of the table. I don't have the thicknessing device, looking at mine its should have a sliding table on the side for tenoning, I don't have that either. There has been some talk about this type of thicknessing unit and they are not the best/easiest of things to use.
I paid ~£150 for it back in May. It's a good machine for planing a flat face and square edge on timber, the heavy cast iron tables are very stable and the old 2 HP motor is definitely of the 'shire' breed. :roll: So I can see why its being bid for.

 

[Anonymous]

I think its all down to supply and demand at any particular time, its not an antique but these older machines were built well and retain their value, as you can see, so anyone buying it knows that they can sell it again for roughly the same money.

 

[Juggler]

totally agree with both of you, i've always been told older machines are worth investing in as they were built much more sturdy, and yes the cast iron tables are a godsend! i just had a feeling there were better machines for that price, but as you say... supply and demand. guess i just hit the market at the right time! it's paying towards my new planer/thicknesser so keep the bids comin' i say! :lol:

Paul

 

[Scrit]

It could be the effect of things appearing on websites such as this - for example ther was some stuff posted about the Multico planer with the thicknesser attachment a few weeks back, but I've seen this with other stuff as well. The Multicos were lightweight machines - as a company they always hovered in the small trade/well-healed amateur region - so they are no better or worse than, say Startrites. But they are a simple machine with little to go wrong.

The beds being out of alignment is probably just going to be a shimming exercise to correct, but the thicknesser attachments were outlawed for trade use by the 1974 Woodworking Machinery Regs because they are downright unsafe - personally I wouldn't have one if it were given. The use of tenoning attachments on planers was also brought under control at the same time, i.e. the guarding requirements, etc were tightened up, because planers used for renbating are difficult to guard and kickback can be a major hazard.

Scrit

 

[Juggler]

well it eventually sold for £260 to a guy in herts. fair old drive to come get it, but that's not down to me!
Scrit... thicknessing on that machine is very dangerous, i'm not surprised it was outlawed. i'm really lookin forward to getting one with auto-feed!

 

[shockingmoment]

juggler - sent you a pm

 

[mel]

i noticed this and sent a private mail to scrit
wasnt after it myself . neither was scrit looking for a new toy
it was the subject of a "name that machine " a couple of weeks ago