Probably pulling the trigger on this one, was curious your thought on the 2 speed version? What's the point, I can not see needing a second speed, but didn't want to miss out if there was a reason for it. I imagine its simply faster when you have to do a lot of small passes? Thanks for the video.
Off the top of my head I’m not familiar with the 2 speed unit. I bought this one specifically for the helical cutter head being better than traditional knife based units. If the 2 speed version is a knife based unit then you still have the downsides of knife based units just at 2 speeds. If it’s a helical head unit then I don’t know what the advantage is. Speed has never been the issue with this unit. My “issues” have been around wrestling giant pieces through it in my cluttered garage and keeping everything level. Speed hasn’t factored into that yet.
2 speed is a banger, a neighbor bought all wen stuff (couldn't laugh more) and has the planer with the 2 speed and showed it to me and it sounds solid. The fast speed removes material fast and the lowest speed removes material with a better quality, I bought the tracksaw and tracks for 118 after taxes and the planer is next.
Probably pulling the trigger on this one, was curious your thought on the 2 speed version? What's the point, I can not see needing a second speed, but didn't want to miss out if there was a reason for it. I imagine its simply faster when you have to do a lot of small passes? Thanks for the video.
Off the top of my head I’m not familiar with the 2 speed unit. I bought this one specifically for the helical cutter head being better than traditional knife based units.
If the 2 speed version is a knife based unit then you still have the downsides of knife based units just at 2 speeds.
If it’s a helical head unit then I don’t know what the advantage is. Speed has never been the issue with this unit. My “issues” have been around wrestling giant pieces through it in my cluttered garage and keeping everything level. Speed hasn’t factored into that yet.
2 speed is a banger, a neighbor bought all wen stuff (couldn't laugh more) and has the planer with the 2 speed and showed it to me and it sounds solid. The fast speed removes material fast and the lowest speed removes material with a better quality, I bought the tracksaw and tracks for 118 after taxes and the planer is next.
Nice. Thanks for this. But please next time set the lights to be still. They were distracting.
I'm still working through everything those lights can do and finding the correct balance. Thanks for watching.
You should feed ot diagonally to wear the teeth evenly otherwise the corner teeth could start experiencing rust or pitting or so I have heard.
I mixed it up throughout the process. It was over 100 planks so most of the planning footage isn’t in the final video.
is that the steam message notification?
Idk, it may be close. I get all my sounds and stock footage from storyblocks so I don’t have to worry about copyright issues.
well if you are making money from your woodworking, it would be easy enough to upgrade as you take on more projects and can charge more...
That too, but woodworking is currently a hobby so that making money thing isn’t happening.