The reviews of this planer are very inaccurate because most people are reffering to the 1300 not the 1301. Even the picture on amazon is the 1300. This is not the same planer. Ryobi was tricky here and replaced the 1300 with the newer and far inferior 1301. They use the same sku so places like Amazon have reviews up that do not reflect the 1301. The 1300 was a decent cheap planer and the positive reviews are likely about the 1300 not the 1301. The 1301 is a very cheapend version of it. There is no infeed/outfeed tables and the whole unit is quite flimsy. I bench tested the 1301 along with some others in the price range. The 1301 was the cheapest planer available. It also performed the worst. Snipe is a very bad problem with this planer. Its not just do to the leck of infeed/outfeed tables either. Its the rollers and head assembly that were out on mine. I could watch the whole cutter assembly move while cutting one inch pine! Lickily, I had other planers to test with it to be totally fair to the unit. I removed the infeed/outfed tables fromt eh other planers and tried to replicate the snipe I was getting on the Ryobi. I couldnt. No other planer sniped as badly. The worst snipe on the others I could mange by setting them up terribly was .005" about 2" on each end. The Ryobi snipes at least .009" 3" into each end. No matter what I could not tame the snipe. Since this planer is very cheap I really wanted to see if I could make something of it. One could assume infeed/outfeed support would help. I built infeed/out table for it and nothing worked. While I virtually eliminated snipe on all the other planers the Ryobi was impossible. Of course again - the whole frame was moving during operation so thats a good clue the unit isnt going to have potential. I even tried 8" peice of pine and the machine still snipes both ends.
So if all you want to do is plane cheap lumber and dont mind cutting 3" off each end you might get away with this. However do not expect accuracy because my test cuts shows about .003" variance thruout the non snipe portion of cut. Another test of putting a slight warped spruce 2X4 thru showed the cutter head assembly moved under the stress of the warp. All other planers push the board flat and cut it.
Its a toy.
(3 customers reviews)
Customers Rating=3.0 / 5.0
More Detail For Factory Reconditioned Ryobi 15 Amp 13 Surface Planer With RapidSet Blade System ZRAP1301
- Cutter head speed of 9,000 RPM
- Planing height of 6"
- Planing width of 13"
- Planing depth of 1/8" for board 6" wide or less
- 2-1/4" inner diameter shop vac or quick flip-up dumping door
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