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Title: Fried way too soon
Review: I have owned this planer for a couple years, but only use it occasionally. Recently I was using it on a door finishing project, heard a clunk, and after that the motor started to bog down. I took it back in to the workshop to check the problem out, only to see chunks of the motor brush contact pads drop out of the venting. I didn't have another and needed it to at least finish the job before it died, but when I fired it back up the RPMs were way down..then give off that familiar smell...then it began to smoke a bit, then it quit all together. I had to run to the hardware store to buy another just to finish the job.In my opinion a product like this isn't supposed to be like the tools that grandpa used and have a predictably short life. In this case, this tool didn't have enough hours on it to constitute tool puberty. It's not like I'm surprised, just disappointed.
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