CL Dewalt 735 planer

A couple weeks ago I bought mine new for $479 shipped which included the infeed/outfeed tables and an extra set of knives. With that in mind $385 sounds a little high. Does it include the tables? Maybe offer $275-300.

Wow BlueBlood, that’s a great price!! About a week or 2 ago I got a 735X for $534 at Amazon, and thought that was a super deal!!

I searched CR as well. Over the course of a month or so there were 3 of the 735s ranging in price from $375 to $400, all looked good in the pictures. But for another $150 or so, it’s worth the added $$ to go new… new everything, plus the warrantee.

I would agree with BlueBlood.

-- Robert --- making toothpicks one 3x3x12 blank at a time!

The Tables are key to the DW735 being all that it can be – all other things being as they’re supposed to be. The 735 is a surprisingly rugged machine, but the basics have to work correctly.

If you have access to it, pre-purchase, take a rough board along. Let’s assume the knives are toast; so the quality of cut won’t be great; but you can test the feed rollers, test the dust collection exhaust (must be in the purchased package), and the board should be uniformly thick across the front-to-back, side-to-side – even dull knives will do this; you’re actually testing the squareness of the cutter head to the table-top.

For the money, I’d purchase new, though.
MJCD

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Considering the factory max repair is $299 (the price an authorized repair house charges to completely rebuild the machine) That price seems high for used out of the box. You could pick up one for $10 with a shot motor and pay $299 to have a factory rebuilt one. Point that out and offer $300

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I havent seen this in the $400-500 range lately. Amazon had it for a little over $500 before xmas, but thats the best deal i’ve seen lately. Having said that, I would say $300 is a reasonable offer.

IF it is is good working condition $300 would be a very good deal (just remember, no warranty on CL stuff)

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