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Continental Industries 15" planer

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
I just bought this planer off CL. It runs on 220 and cuts pretty good. It gets some snipe at the end of a pass, but I am sure that the rollers can be adjusted.
Anyways any body know any thing about this brand.
This thing has to be about 500 lbs. and I need to get into my basement shop before my wife sees it in the garage.:)
 
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I just bought this planer off CL. It runs on 220 and cuts pretty good. It gets some snipe at the end of a pass, but I am sure that the rollers can be adjusted.
Anyways any body know any thing about this brand.
This thing has to be about 500 lbs. and I need to get into my basement shop before my wife sees it in the garage.:)

- dbol
 
#6 · (Edited by Moderator)
I realize this is a post from Nov 2012, checking to see if any of the original posters are still hanging out here. I recently acquired one of these planers. Mine is as described, it has a 2HP 220 motor, but it's set upon a Delta mobile base, with a HUGE set of in and out extension wings. It's the dead ringer of this one, except this one is 3HP, and with a badged Delta motor.

Here is the one I have.

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Found these guys on a web search. I've sent them an e-mail asking if it was theirs. This page doesn't specifically say woodworking equipment, but sounds like he did anything that drew a buck, and DIY was his thing, and home owner DIY was the rage back them, so likely it's theirs. Indiana is where they are, so likely it got the Bridgeport reference just because it does weigh a ton, and I never met a light weight Bridgeport anything. Funny how people will make that kind of reference, it's heavy, gotta be a Bridgie. Thing is, doesn't look like it is TaiChinese, which would have been junk back in 1986.

My motor is generic, but badged made in USA, no clear maker, but saying that it looks like the Delta motor. Runs like a deer, and strong like BULL!!!!
 

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Sorry for the delay, went away for a long weekend.

Got an e-mail response from Doug G at the Continental Industries I had linked to and he said.

"George,

Wrong Continental Industries, we do not manufacture any wood working machinery or equipment. Sorry we are not of any help to you."
 
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