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When my Dad died last year I inherited his old deWalt planer/thicknesser which is out of production now, but is similar to the DW1150. On the side it has a horizontal table which can be moved left and right, and in and out by means of levers, and can be moved up and down using a thumbwheel. It is marked DW600 and I understand it's a horizontal mortising attachment. It was all pretty well gunged up and starting to rust so I stripped it down and got it all cleaned up and adjusted and it moves a treat, but I don't have the mortising bit.
There's no fitment for the hollow square chisel which you get in a vertical mortiser, just a 1/2" socket on the end of the planer drum with a grub screw to hold a bit. I assume that you need a cutting bit similar to a routing bit. I couldn't find a suitable bit anywhere, so I thought I would be clever and get a 1/2" router bit and use that. It fitted fine, but just wouldn't cut. When I stopped the machine to check it was quickly obvious why - the shaft was rotating in the wrong bloody direction!
So - does anyone know where I can get a 1/2" horizontal mortising bit, preferably without spending a fortune? Second hand would be good, if anyone's got one lying around, as I'm not going to be giving it a huge amount of use.
Thanks!
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