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RE: Helical head for planer which one? - fredhargis - 08-31-2024
Don't you love when things just kinda fall into place? Although I can't speak from personal experience....it never happens to me. Congrats!
RE: Helical head for planer which one? - Tapper - 09-01-2024
(08-31-2024, 04:03 PM)JDuke Wrote: Rather than retrofit any of those machines, I found a Jet JJP-12 locally with straight knives and picked it up for 1600 adding a shelix head for around 1100 brings it to 2700 substantially lower than the 5600 they are currently asking for the helical head JJP-12 so I figure I got a pretty good deal.
Now I’ll be listing a 6” jet jointer with helical head for sale, and one if not two Belsaw planers. Although it might be nice to keep a belsaw around for molding.
Duke
Funny just this past weekend three of the jet JJP-12’s showed up locally for sale. 2 were straight knife with asking prices of 2000 and 2600 each and one was the helical head with asking price of 3650 initially and then pretty quickly down to 3300. All were decent deals and if I could have gotten the guy with the helical head down to below 2700 I would have gone that route, but getting a straight knife cutter head and upgrading to a Shelix is going to be better on my tool budget.
Time to buy a lottery ticket!
Congrats!Doug
RE: Helical head for planer which one? - JDuke - 09-01-2024
Funny even if I won the lottery I’d still buy used tools just for the hunt…
RE: Helical head for planer which one? - kurt18947 - 09-01-2024
John touched on this but the helical heads do require more power apparently. The straight knife JJP-12 planes at 20 FPM. The Jet helical head planes at 12 FPM. I did inquire at Byrd about that. They claimed that people were installing Byrd heads and weren't reducing the speed. I did see one guy that got the parts list for the straight head and helical head machines. He compared the lists and ordered what feed drive parts were different so he was able to reduce the feed speed.
There's no practical way that I see to upsize the motor on the JJP-12. I figured if I ever do a head change I'll mount an ammeter some place convenient and vary the depth of cut so as to not exceed the motor rating, 15 amps I believe.