myimpishgrin
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Good evening all,
I come in search of wisdom, or in lieu of that some experience. I'm hunting for a planer thicknesser for my little hobbiest wood shop that I'm currently building. I'll give some further detail here, but I'll drop tldr bulletpoints at the bottom. Space is fairly limited in there so with that in mind I'm aiming for something with a depth of no more than 800mm (preferably 750mm). I'd also be keen for helical head or spiral head rather than standard knives (I have a little lunch box metabo that screams like a banshee and I'd rather something a little less vocal), but I'd be willing to look at tersa too, though I haven't seen any in my size and price range. Speaking of price, I was hoping for something around the £2000 mark, though I'd be willing to go higher if the machine was deemed enough of an upgrade on the others and it was a sort of "buy once, cry once" situation. Power wise the workshop is in a garage with its own distribution board, but it's just standard home level supply to the best of my knowledge (I didn't build the garage so I'm just going on how it looks). I am considering getting a spark in to quote for upgrading the power given there will be some other machinery and a separate room with a fridge and freezer in it on the circuit, so I won't 100% rule out something that needs more than a standard 3 pin plug.
One slight complication is the fact that I'm in Northern Ireland. That greatly limits my access to the larger UK 2nd hand market unfortunately so barring a stroke of good luck and old sedgwick or something popping up locally, buying and older machine probably isn't an option. It makes shipping expensive (or people just refuse) but I'll just have to swallow that.
I've been looking at the 4 below that fall into these categories
Record Power PT310-HB £2499
Record Power PT107-HB £1899
iTECH 260SS £2028
Jet JPT-310HH £3792
I realise the jet is quite a jump in price, but if it's much better regarded than the other options then I might be able to justify the cost to myself.
So if anyone has any experience of any of these machines I'd love to hear about them, good and bad. Alternatively if anyone has any other suggestions available in the UK / Ireland that match those specs, I'm all ears.
TLDR:
Planer thicknesser
800mm (preferably 750mm) footprint depth
Helical / spiral / tersa cutters
Around £2000 (flexible for the right bit of kit)
Currently standard 240v supply (potentialy to change)
Based in NI so 2nd hand less feasible
Thank for any help you can provide
Pete
I come in search of wisdom, or in lieu of that some experience. I'm hunting for a planer thicknesser for my little hobbiest wood shop that I'm currently building. I'll give some further detail here, but I'll drop tldr bulletpoints at the bottom. Space is fairly limited in there so with that in mind I'm aiming for something with a depth of no more than 800mm (preferably 750mm). I'd also be keen for helical head or spiral head rather than standard knives (I have a little lunch box metabo that screams like a banshee and I'd rather something a little less vocal), but I'd be willing to look at tersa too, though I haven't seen any in my size and price range. Speaking of price, I was hoping for something around the £2000 mark, though I'd be willing to go higher if the machine was deemed enough of an upgrade on the others and it was a sort of "buy once, cry once" situation. Power wise the workshop is in a garage with its own distribution board, but it's just standard home level supply to the best of my knowledge (I didn't build the garage so I'm just going on how it looks). I am considering getting a spark in to quote for upgrading the power given there will be some other machinery and a separate room with a fridge and freezer in it on the circuit, so I won't 100% rule out something that needs more than a standard 3 pin plug.
One slight complication is the fact that I'm in Northern Ireland. That greatly limits my access to the larger UK 2nd hand market unfortunately so barring a stroke of good luck and old sedgwick or something popping up locally, buying and older machine probably isn't an option. It makes shipping expensive (or people just refuse) but I'll just have to swallow that.
I've been looking at the 4 below that fall into these categories
Record Power PT310-HB £2499
Record Power PT107-HB £1899
iTECH 260SS £2028
Jet JPT-310HH £3792
I realise the jet is quite a jump in price, but if it's much better regarded than the other options then I might be able to justify the cost to myself.
So if anyone has any experience of any of these machines I'd love to hear about them, good and bad. Alternatively if anyone has any other suggestions available in the UK / Ireland that match those specs, I'm all ears.
TLDR:
Planer thicknesser
800mm (preferably 750mm) footprint depth
Helical / spiral / tersa cutters
Around £2000 (flexible for the right bit of kit)
Currently standard 240v supply (potentialy to change)
Based in NI so 2nd hand less feasible
Thank for any help you can provide
Pete
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