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Wixey WR510 Digital Planer Readout with Fractions |  | Brand: Wixey
Category: Home Improvement
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3743
Media: Tools & Hardware
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 1.8 x 3.3 x 15
MPN: WR510
Model: WR510
UPC: 854395002053
EAN: 0854395002053
ASIN: B001PTGBSK
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Fits most portable planers | | • | Easy to install, calibrate, and use | | • | Displays Inches with fractions or millimeters | | • | Large easy to read display angled for easy viewing |
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Product Description
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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 Accurate but little work to mount on no dewalt planar April 20, 2010
Michael T. Holloman (Lucedale,MS USA)
If you have a bench top dewalt planar you are good, but if you have a makita get your drill out and start modifications. All in all it's worth it!
 Great addition to my planer April 20, 2010
Gregory Little (Prairieville, La.)
I have a Grizzly 15" planer and the thickness scale that came with it is only good as a reference point at best. I added the Wixey WR510 planer readout recently after figuring how this could be adapted to my machine, since it designed to fit on desktop planers. Wixey's website has pictures of numerous machines that are floor model planers that have been adapted by their owneers to use this product.
The concept is simple...one end fastened to a stationary part of the planer and the other fastened to a movable part. I bought a piece of aluminum flat bar and made a bracket that adapted it for my machine. I am by no means a metal worker...but with a hacksaw, a vise, a drill and a hammer anyone can do it..
This has improved the accuracy of my planer readout tremendously. Previously I would plane a board and constantly have to check the thickness with my dial calipers for accuracy. After installing the Wixey I made a test plane and the Wixey was exactly accurate as my dial calipers.
Great addition to a planer.
Wixey WR510 is a real timesaver. March 29, 2010
Steven R. Mansen (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I installed the Wixey on my DeWalt DW735 in less than 15 minutes. The accuracy is incredible! It's especially handy when you have to plane a new board to match something you planed a couple of set-ups ago. Just measure the thickness of your first board, and plane to the same dimension - all by using the Wixey gauge on the planer.
I was a little worried about just having it stuck on to the machine with the double sided tape, but then discovered self-tapping screws included to be used as well to secure it to the existing height scale. You want to make sure you do a "loose" fit-up first to make sure there is no binding as the gauge moves up and down on the guide bar.
Another nice feature is the automatic fraction display that shows up as the digital reading matches a standard fractional measurement. This is one of the best power tool modifications I've made and I highly recommend it to others. Now if they'd just make a longer version to use on a sliding miter saw fence...
 Upside down and backwards January 2, 2010
S. Howe (Vermont)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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"
Wixey Planer Readout July 13, 2009
Peter J. Blake (Auburn, Maine)
I think this is a great product. I believe the only mild criticism I would have is the install directions. They jump from one name brand to another and back and forth. This may seem quite simple for the person who designed the product, but for us poor mortals it needs a rewrite. I suggest that it cover Delta Planers in one section from beginning to end, then the DeWalt Planers in another section, and finally the generic planers in the last section. I made a stupid mistake and assumed that the bar had to pass below the planner table edge and to that end I drilled a hole in the table only to find out later that there was no need to do this. Needless to say, I guess that I should have read the directions more carefully, but like most people I hate to read directions. I prefer step one, step two, etc... hope this helps you out there and be sure to read your directions.
Burkelyn
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