The electric hand planner has a brushless motor that gives it power and runtime.
When you use a hand planer that can make 30,000 cuts per minute, you get rid of things quickly.
This is the maximum depth of cut that can be made: 5/64-inch (2 mm).
Called the 1/456-inch depth adjustment knob (0.01 mm. approximately)
Precision-machined aluminum front and back shoes make sure that the cut is straight.
Users can rest the planer on a work surface without hurting the material. The kickstand makes this possible.
Precision-machined grooves in the front of the shoe allow for edge chamfering.
The DCP580B has a brushless motor for maximum efficiency that helps it keep going even when there is a lot of work to do.
The brushless planer has a 3-1/4-inch width capacity and can make depth adjustments of 1/256 inches with a rebate capacity of 5/64 inches.
The planer is 6.8 lbs. and runs on the DEWALT 20V MAX* battery.
The hand planer for woodworking is lightweight and cordless, so it can be easily moved around the job site without having to deal with a cord.
Batteries, chargers, and dust bags are not sold together.
There is a company called DeWalt that I like very much.
Most of the time, their products are very well-designed and well-built
So this hand planer is a big let down.
This planer cuts unevenly right out of the box. The right side of the tool takes a much deeper cut than the left side of the tool.
The left side of the tool gets a tiny skim cut, and the right side gets a cut of 1.5 to 2mm.
I thought it was just a mistake made by the factory, which was not a big deal.
To use precision tools, you have to adjust them, and you can’t always trust the factory to do it right.
So I used DeWalt’s method for aligning the blades.
In the end, nothing changed.
All right.
Checked to see if the shoes are on the same level. That’s what I should have done in the first place.
They aren’t.
If you usually have to dial in your precision tools, that’s not a surprise.
They can’t be changed at all.
They can’t be made the same size.
The rear shoe is screwed to the chassis that was made with injection molding.
As far as I can tell, they think the chassis should be perfect when it comes out of the molding machine.
As an engineer for the last 16 years, I would never expect a complex injection molded part to be accurate enough for what this planer is trying to achieve. I’m not sure how this could be possible though.
It’s just completely out of the question.
So, there should be a way to change the shoes, but there isn’t.
Unless I figure out how to make the shoes coplanar and square to the blades, this tool won’t do anything.
