I am planning on upgrading my 12" planer to a 15" and want to keep it under
$2000. The Powermatic 15" spiral head looks good. Anyone know anything
about it or have recommendations about other brand"

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Art Ransom
Lancaster , Texas

www.turningaround.org

LeNeave Machinery and Supply, Charlotte, NC
Ask for Greg.
Mine was $850 and it's fine.
Wilson
"Art Ransom" wrote in message
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I am planning on upgrading my 12" planer to a 15" and want to keep it under
$2000. The Powermatic 15" spiral head looks good. Anyone know anything
about it or have recommendations about other brand"

--
Art Ransom
Lancaster , Texas

www.turningaround.org

"Art Ransom" wrote in message
...
I am planning on upgrading my 12" planer to a 15" and want to keep it under
$2000. The Powermatic 15" spiral head looks good. Anyone know anything
about it or have recommendations about other brand"

--
Art Ransom
Lancaster , Texas

www.turningaround.org


Got mine from http://www.wilkemachinery.com/ . They make the bridgewood
line. FWW typically gives them rave reviews. Paid less than a $1000.00 more
than a year ago. Works great.
Concordantly that make their own Yorkcraft line. For the same amount of
money you can get a 20" model.

Good luck, Jack

I haven't used that specific machine but looking at the specs I say buy
it.

1. A spiral is way better than the not spiral and a true spiral is way
better than the "spiral like" carbide things with all the little blades
like everybody is offering.

2. 3hp on a 15" planer is ballsy.

The only downside is the bed rollers are not easily adjusted. That is
the case with pretty much all mid range machines so no difference
there.

On higher end machines you have micro adjust of the beds from the front
of the machine. Real nice. It's less of a concern if you setup for one
type of stock, either rough or faced. With faced you can minimize snipe
by setting bed rollers low but rough stock won't feed. If the beds are
up enough to run rough stock, then snipe is maximized.

I purchased a Sunhill 15" planner and added the HELIX cutter head.
This is the replaceable tooling type not the bendable knives. Curly
maple through the planer with NO blowout.
3hp, 220v, 1phase

Planer $825
Cutterhead $695
Installation $150 (They change the gearbox)
Shipping $100

It was worth every penny!

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 07:56:38 -0500, "Art Ransom"
wrote:

I am planning on upgrading my 12" planer to a 15" and want to keep it under
$2000. The Powermatic 15" spiral head looks good. Anyone know anything
about it or have recommendations about other brand"

Nice to hear. The Sunhill 15" has the base mounted motor right? That's
better than some of the cheaper 15's that have the overhead mounted
motor.

The Sunhill has the overhead mounted motor. Closer to the gearbox for
speed adjustments.


On 8 Oct 2005 21:37:21 -0700, "SonomaProducts.com"
wrote:

Nice to hear. The Sunhill 15" has the base mounted motor right? That's
better than some of the cheaper 15's that have the overhead mounted
motor.

Have you looked at Grizzly.com? They have some sales going on now
(same as their earlier 2005 prices, but some good deals regardless).
Also, General International (general.ca)?
Andy