| Review by tooldad | posted 144 days ago | 528 views | 0 times favorited | 8 comments |  |
- Grizzly 1033x 20" spiral extreme duty planer
- Brand: Grizzly | Category: Planers
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I was recently able to obtain a 5hp Grizzly 1033X 20” Planer for my school shop. Our old 20” planer has been around for 10 years and has seen better days. I convinced admin that this was the way to go and the extra cost would be worth it to cut on noise levels. I have always heard of this but have never experienced it until just a month ago. Boy were they right! We now have 2 planers in the shop. The spiral cutter is quieter standing next to the machine than standing in the same place where the normal cutter is over 100 ft away. We are so investing the $1000 next year to upgrade the other one.
I love the switch box, it is very sturdy, the 3hp previous model had the plastic magnetic switch. Unfortunately one of the students has already found a screw. So I will get to experience blade changing this summer. At this point, nothing a RO won’t take care of.
The only complaint is I had some electrical issues with the mag starter. One of the wires was loose, got that solved. It still kept blowing a breaker. finally looking at the electrical diagram, there is a dial for the amperage. It was set at 34 amps, no wonder we kept blowing.
We can fill a 40gallon trash can with sawdust in no time flat, approximately 15-25 minutes with a class building small coffee tables.
We have invested in a cyclone separator, well worth it also. Saves having to shut down the dust collector each hour and empty. 90% of dust goes to trash can and we then just switch cans if it gets full.
I will try and post a pic of the new and the old soon.
Tooldad
Arnold, MO
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8 comments so far
motthunter
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posted 143 days ago
I have considered changing the blades on my Grizz jointer to spiral head. THanks for the information
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Huckleberry
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posted 143 days ago
My class had upgraded to this planer also and as you said the difference in the noise level is tremendous. And to my surprise it makes a really nice cut. The big draw back for our shop was the size of connector for our cyclone, the one on the machine is about 1” larger than what we had at the time. In my opinion overall this is a great machine for the cost.
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GaryK
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posted 143 days ago
Great review! I’ll have to stick with my little 13” for a while longer.
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Grumpy
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posted 143 days ago
Thanks for the tip tooldad.
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alanealane
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posted 142 days ago
I wish you the best with your spiral cutterhead!!! In the famous words of Tony the Tiger…”They’re grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! ;-D
I will have one soon as you can see in this blog
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Joel Tille
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posted 140 days ago
Thanks for the review, i have been keeping an eye on this one. Debating between this and a dual drum sander.
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tooldad
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posted 140 days ago
I have a 24” grizzly dual drum sander at home. Hated sandpaper changes so much I bought the velcro kit for it. Since then I don’t use the back drum any more. Very slow, however I kind of use it as a wide planer for my panels. Too difficult to change papers for finish sanding 60-100-150-220. Alot easier just to use a RO. The finish that the planer leaves is glass smooth surface. If I could afford the $4k for the extreme 24” planer that is what I would have at home.
Dusty56
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posted 15 days ago
regarding spiral cutter heads …..I’ve been told that they don’t cut as well as the straight blades do on woods such as Pine . Any experience with this issue ?
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