"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote in message
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Neil Brooks wrote in
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Either get the DeWalt in/outfeed tables or build your own.

In recent testing, that was the ONE shortcoming in an otherwise
GREAT
planer.

Once PROPERLY supported, the 735 took Best of Breed.

So ... congratulations on a great purchase !!


How does infeed/outfeed table length affect the size of what can
be
planed? If I extend the table, say 12", does that mean I can
handle a
board 18" longer without fear of snipe?

I've got some melamine covered MDF that's waiting to be made in
to feed
tables.

Puckdropper
--
Never teach your apprentice everything you know.

I put my Delta 12" onto a rolling stand, about 30" or so tall.
Gravity held the portable planer in place, so it was portable.
V-shaped 1X1 blocks held it in position on the top, however. The
planer had small metal infeed and outfeed tables, which remained
in place and between them and the planer itself, filled the top of
the rolling table. On the infeed and outfeed ends of the rolling
table, I built drop leaf extensions with horizontally mounted
boards, about 1" apart that brought the leafs to exactly the
infeed/outfeed table heights. For most work, the Delta setup with
the factory, metal, infeed and outfeed tables was fine. For
longer work, however, I could snap the two leaves up and they'd
add another 24" or so to the existing 6" Delta tables. It worked
great and by not having the leaves with a flat surface, the slots
permitted chips to fall aside so the height didn't change.


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And suppose you were a member
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