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  • 16-11-2011 11:16pm
    #1
    sohappy
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    can anyone recommend a cheap electric hand planer,?


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    slowburner
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    The green Bosch ones are pretty good and will last - not all that cheap, mind you.
    There are loads of cheap 'own brand' power planers out there - all made in China


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    earpiece
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    With Slowburner here..... Bosch make very good DIY (green) tools, they are of good quality and last long. I have an electric drill I was given by by grandfather in 1984, still going stong and used on an almost daily basis.... a 15 year old planer, and a 16 year old router, all of the green 'elk'.


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    slowburner
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    earpiece wrote: »
    With Slowburner here..... Bosch make very good DIY (green) tools, they are of good quality and last long. I have an electric drill I was given by by grandfather in 1984, still going stong and used on an almost daily basis.... a 15 year old planer, and a 16 year old router, all of the green 'elk'.
    I think the older Bosch power tools were made in Switzerland. Not sure where they are made today.


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    eth0
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    most of it is made in Hungary. I wonder where their blue stuff is made

    these days you have to be thankful if a thing is not made in fecking China


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    heffo500
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    eth0 wrote: »
    most of it is made in Hungary. I wonder where their blue stuff is made

    these days you have to be thankful if a thing is not made in fecking China

    I think the Bosch Professional (Blue) is made in malaysia. I know my bosch planer is.

    This is the one I have:
    http://www.dm-tools.co.uk/product.php/section/4569/sn/BSHGHO2682

    By the way its a great planer if you can afford it. My favourite feature on bosch professional planes is therir wood razor system whereby the plane only uses 1 diposable blade which slides in place with no setting up at all only a tighten with an allen key and if you hit a nail while using the plane you won't have ruined a permanent type blade.


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    jack of all
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    Bosch could be made anywhere now, I have a small Bosch (blue) hammer drill, made in Russia!


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    #8
    sonofsteptoe
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    With all the previous posters on this one, I bought a green Bosch planer a couple of years ago to help reclaim some pitchpine flooring. Its been well used and abused (even planed some rubber residue from carpet from the timber). Still going strong.


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