any opinions on the delta shopmaster dp330 12″ thickness planer? i am going to be removing and cleaning up all of the flat stock trim during renovation of an old house. they fed the stock too fast through the planer originally, and there is lots of scalloping or chatter, along paint to be removed. heavy duty tools has it for $164.
thanks
dave
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I might have that planer. It's in the garage and I'm not moving from here for a while.
Started with the Ryobi AP10, graduated (?) to the Ridgid 13" after a couple of years, burned that one out, got a direct-swap replacement, "friend" borrowed it and ran enough mahogany through it in one day to fill 30 large trash bags with chips, ruined the rubber feed wheels, still waiting for him to make good on it.
So then I had no planer and a project starting up. Went to Lowes and found a decent Delta 12", been using it about 2 yrs now. It's a basic machine, but it seems to do a good job. Light enough that I can carry it aound without getting a hernia.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
...along paint to be removed.
planers are poor tools to remove paint/finishes -
I've got the delta 13" two speed - I like it very much, too much to use it for for what you propose -
for $164, you can consider it a disposable tool - your real expense will be sharp edges - how much are knives?
i have one of those planers,i can only guess but it probably has planed 10,000-15,000' of boards. i did have to spend 35.00 on it for a new pulley. if your going to plane paint it will be hard on blades.i would get all the trim ready,run it 1 or 2 times thru. then change blades [they are reversible] and run again.you might even have to buy another set and use them up.i don't think you can beat it for 165. larry
hand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
You might also invest in a metal detector, or at least a big rare earth magnet. Check before you plane in case there's stuff like old thumb tacks concealed under the paint.
As someone else mentioned, paint will dull your knives faster than wood. A deeper cut might help with that, but then you're losing more thickness.
There's almost sure to be lead in some of the older layers of paint, you have to decide how much you're worried about it.
-- J.S.
You might want to have a second set of knives ready so the others can be sent in for sharpening. You can sharpen them yourself, but I've always had better luck sending them to a specialty shop.