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So I bought me a 12" combo Planer/Jointer. Made the wife help me get it into the basement shop. Removed the Jet 6" Jointer and the Delta Portable planer. Sold them on craigslist on a saturday morning in about 1.5hrs.
The Rikon finally got assembled and checked. It works wonderfully. Although I have only put one piece of 8" cherry 4' long through it, it worked flawlessly. Next step, cherry kitchen cabs.
See it here:
http://rikontools.com/productpage_25-210H.html
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Looks like a great machine. I have the Jet JJP12 , with straight knives, and the machines look pretty similar in design. Having the heilical head is a great upgrade.
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That's a sweet little unit. I'd love to have one.
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A couple of folks at work were asking about price. I will look it up. But, all of these units are drop shipped, if ya order on line. I waited a year until one vendor had something like 25% off sale, with free shipping. Should have got 2 and resold 1.
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500# and you and the boss got it into the basement....she's a winner and deserves to be taken out to dinner!
Congrats....On the tool and the wife!
I started with absolutely nothing. Now, thanks to years of hard work, careful planning, and perseverance, I find I still have most of it left.
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Fred, actually not that bad. I built a dolly, bolted the unit to it. Used a wench that attached to my trailer hitch on my truck and slowly lowered it down the basement stairs on tracks. Also brought up the old equipment the same way.
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Just curious, but how is it packaged? The manual says shipping "carton."
I assume it is on a pallet that you can get a pallet jack under. Is that true?
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I can't imagine anything more than a 100-150 pounds not coming on a pallet. My jet came on a pallet and had a 1/2" plywood crate strapped to it.
Bur I'm not the OP, so just consider this a bump
-Marc
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Where do you guys keep finding these agreeable wenches?
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Joe, Yes it came bolted to a purpose built pallet.
Phil, We find them by never using the word "wenches".
