Comments on: PORTER-CABLE PC60THPK 6.0-Amp Hand Planer

By: bugaboo

bugaboo — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:20:40 +0000

front and back shoes not in same plane at zero setting Received this unit from Amazon last Friday. Came fast and it looked like a good solid unit. I ordered this Porter Cable because the 1594k Bosch I recently purchased had unparallel shoes and I did not feel it was up to me to try and adjust it like some others had done, so I returned it. The Porter Cable shoes were parallel but not zeroed correctly. I had to set the adjustment knob to 1/32″ to get the 2 shoes in the same plane which reduces the maximum cut from 5/64″(.080″) down to 3/64″(.048″). I called Porter Cable and they said there was no way for me to adjust it to the proper zero setting. They recommended I contact a nearby authorized P-C service center which I did. The service center said it was not something that they do. So I’m returning this unit as well. With all the 5 star ratings on this planer I guess I’ll reorder the same unit and hope I have better luck.(April 9) I have changed my rating on this unit to a 5 star. Before returning the unit I looked at the…

By: KRANZO "KRANZO"

KRANZO "KRANZO" — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:18:55 +0000

WOW! I am extremely happy with this purchase thus far. This is the first electric hand planer I have used and I fell in love with it instantly. I grew up with the old fashion hand planers and I could never get a good finished edge with one of those. I’ve used the full size bench planers and those a great but only when you are planing boards that can pass through the openings. I bought this because i had to switch out hinges on my old cabinets and need to plane off anywhere from 0″ to 1/8″ of the edges. It’s worked like an absolute charm so far. I’m ending with edges are are just as good if not better than if I did it with a high quality table saw. One big advantage that I have been having luck with, is when I need to plane more off one end than the other, I have been turning the dial slowly while planing and still getting a beautiful finished edge. I recommend practicing on a piece of scrap before you do any finishing work so that you can learn the limitations and all…

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:07:13 +0000

Fantastic tool! I ordered this last fall out of desperation…I needed to edge plane a bunch of 40 year-old sugar maple boards. They were dirty and grimy having been stored for decades. I didn’t want to wreck the edge on my very expensive jack-plane blade, so I figured I would likely just wreck this tool trying to get those edges cleaned up.I really didn’t know what to expect. I have a 18″ power planer (the boards were too wide to fit edge-wise!), and I had read reviews of very expensive and heavy powered hand-planers. Wow! What a great surprise this little phand planer was….This little planer blew through that filthy maple with amazing speend leaving a finish-ready surface. …so I figured since I hadn’t wrecked the planer …yet…so I would try planing the top of one of my work benches of years of accumulated glue, epoxy, paint, etc. Again, the results were terrific and even after what I considered abusive treatment, it left a very nice smooth surface.So I…