Impressive. Not the planer, but the epoxy on the garage floor. If it is
slippery when wet I found that as it is drying, throw up some silica
sand in the air so it just settles on top. It dries stuck in and is
easy to distribute for an even overall effect. If you mix the sand in,
then it gets encapsulated and won't be exposed, preventing
hydroplanning. I guess it could work for normal painted floors too. It
will be awhile before you need to recoat your floor.

About the planer. This is what I was most curious about. Does it really
give smother results than others? Sorry about the snipe. That should not
happen. Perhaps the 736 when it comes out......

John

mel wrote:

bought the new dewalt planer this week and was impressed last night on how
well it sized some 5/4 maple and walnut with virtually no snipe. So today I
was going to plane some walnut strips down to 1/4"x1"x14" finished product.
I'm feeding the strips though and they keep coming out with a severe snipe
about 2" from trailing end. So I started playing with it at the expense of
$4/bf material and found that when I fed 3 strips through at a time sniped
was drastically reduced but still present. When I fed 3 strips through and
fed the next three before the first exited no more snipe. HOWEVER, at 14"
you gotta run back and forth and look rather silly not to mention probably
not the safest thing to do on an expoxied garage floor with sawdust.