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(More customer reviews)This Wixey gauge is a quality measurment device with some really cool features. It will predict with very good accuracy what planer height is set to BEFORE you make the pass. It can be set to read incramentally, in other words how much you change the planer height from the previous pass. It is easily calibrated.
It can also be used to measure the thickness of a piece of lumber before, after or anytime. Ths feature is so handy that I find myself using it even when I am not planing wood.
With all that said, now the other shoe. IF you have a standard planer that lowers the cutting head it will probaly fit fine, you can move on to the next review.
BUT IF you have a planer that has a fixed cutter and the bed raises up and down READ ON!
You will have to design and build your own metal brackets to attach the readout. They have photos on thier web site showing examples, but no written instruction or even tips on how to do it. I am quite crafty and mechanically inclined, yet it took me about 5-6 hours to install this, and I plan to re-work it some now that I have been using it.
You will have to dissasemble the unit and install tha scale upside down, or else you cannot calibrate it. You also have to ignore the negative numbers because it is now working backwards to the way it was designed.
You need to leave tha bottom of the scale far enough off the frame of your planer to allow measuring the fattest board you plan to measure with it. (I am currently limited to less than an inch(this is what I want to re-work)
Or you could install it with a rising scale that is sure to get bent/ broken etc as it would rise above the rest of the planer.
Note also that the scale is designed to only mount on the right side of you planer.
Overall I love the function of the readout and the accuracy it has brought to my planer, But IF you have a rising bed planer Expect to spend a great deal of time "Making it work" and even after all that time the scale will be "Upside down" and the readout will read "Backwards"
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Replace the inaccurate stock height gauge on your portable planer and stop constantly using calipers to check stock thickness!Most digital calipers only read out in decimal measurements, forcing you to do the mental math to convert to fractions. If your stock is measuring .575" and you need 9/16", how much do you need to remove with your next pass through the planer?With the Digital Planer Height Gauge simply lower your planer until the gauge reads .565 - 9/16.It cant get any easier!Unique gauge reads out both decimal and fractional measurements.Fits most portable "lunch box" style planers.Easy to follow installation instructions.
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