: Buy used. Best bang for the buck. Just check it out before taking it home.
: There are a lot of used equipment out there for sale right now.

: Assuming your looking at portable planners I can't recommend a specific brand
: because I am old iron guy. Mine is 1950 Powermatic I restored. But if all
: you expect to do is softwoods I don't think that there is much difference
: in practical terms. The biggest thing I hear about is the rubber feed
: rollers wear out and they don't want to feed.

: Here is mine just after I finished restoring it. Of course now it is covered
: with dust.

Biggest problem most have with machines like that is they don't have the available power to run them. Takes a big circuit to run most of those old machines if not three phase.

Bill H.