About last Thanksgiving I noticed that the table that runs under my cutter head on my Dewalt 735 was loose.  You could see that shavings had gotten under the table so I gently lifted the corner, blew the shavings out and added a bit of double back carpet tape under it.  I ordered a new table (at $60) and figured it would arrive in a week at most.  Well, today it arrived after multiple back orders so I pulled the old one off, scraped the old glue off and gently sanded the surface.  After a bath of acetone, I read a brief article on reassembly and was ready to install the new one.  When I unwrapped it I was shocked at the mirror finish it had.  I wrapped and taped every thing in sight and sprayed two coats of DuPont 90 contact cement on both surfaces.  The placement was a bit trickier than I expected because you have to feed it in from the end but I sneaked it in, lined it up and dropped it in place.  I only got was shot at it but I was successful. After a quick coat of paste wax the planer is good for a few more years.

It’s disappointing to think that they would use adhesive to hold the table in place 

11 minutes ago, lew said:

It’s disappointing to think that they would use adhesive to hold the table in place 

It’s actually pretty clever, Lew.  The base of the machine is cast aluminum that has been machined flat.  The table is polished steel is replaceable and held into place with contact cement.  DuPont 90 is super strong.  Not cheap but strong.

Nice replacement and upgrade Ron, that mirror finish will slide smoothly for some time now. My base is shot too, I may have to do the same thing, gots tons of scratches in it from running things through I shouldn't have etc. even with a coat of wax it can hang a board up now on micro cuts.

What really surprised me was that I didn’t have to adjust the height stop.  I set the height at 1” and ran a piece if cherry though. When it hit the stop the board measured .996”.  Close enough. 

23 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

What really surprised me was that I didn’t have to adjust the height stop.  I set the height at 1” and ran a piece if cherry though. When it hit the stop the board measured .996”.  Close enough. 

 Impressive replacement! Dead nutz, seems like things are running to tight tolerances at the ol DW factory, to replace the base table years later and have it fit that nice, nothing has moved or changed in their quality for that machine.

I had it dialed in pretty close anyway, John.  The 735 is way more accurate than the Delta.