Triton tools. Specifically, palm planer questions.

[BioNerd]

Hello,

A guy showed up with this thing yesterday and I gave it a try. Seemed cheap built and the bottom plate was machined quite rough. He just bought it, it was new.

The blades are 60mm proprietary, 21 dollars a pair.

Its lighter and less ackward than the makitas ive used. But the on off switch is weird. The resting little feet doesnt really work.

Ive used a 2hp plunge router that was awesome and I loved it. That made me look into triton tools, I believe they are German designed but china built.

Does anyone have this tool, how durable it is? Pros and cons?

Warranty response from any tool from triton?

Thanks.

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[Robinson1]

Check out April Wilkerson on YouTube. She uses alot of Triton tools. Might help you from an opinion.

 

[BioNerd]

Check out April Wilkerson on YouTube. She uses alot of Triton tools. Might help you from an opinion.

And she is cute

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[Robinson1]

And she is cute

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That's always a plus!

 

[neophyte]

I haven’t used the Triton planer, or even seen it.
Years ago, Porter Cable/ then Rockwell/ then Porter Cable again, manufactured a power hand planer designed to be the equivalent of a powered block plane.
I’m not sure how long it was in production, but I presume maybe a couple decades or more, so there must have been a market for it.
It also had a “horn” so it could be used with one hand. The blade setup was different with a spural blade like the larger Porter Cable door planers.
I forget the model number.

I believe Triton tools was or might actually be Australian.
The original Triton “tools” if I recall correctly, were specialty “workbenches”, called the “Workcentre” that allowed a circular saw to be setup for use as a tablesaw, and maybe for other types of cuts as well.
The workbench might have also allowed the use of a router as well.
Triton then developed other tools, like the sawhorse with a clamp known as the Super Jaws, which is similar to the Rockwell Jawhorse.
I presume the power tools might have been designed in Australia, but I’m not sure whether the tools were ever made there.
Back during maybe the 1990s, the Triton router was introduced in the USA, and got rave reviews from some magazines and woodworkers. It worked somewhat differently then other routers available in the US at the time, and there were other issues like collet availability.
Then there was some issue around the time Amazon was getting big and the internet was taking over retail sales, and Triton completely or partially dissapeared from the marketplace.
I forget whether it was then, or a bit later when they tried to get back in the market, but I recall there being repair and repair parts issues.
At this point all of that may have been sorted out.
I believe all the power tool production got switched to Asia.
The tools may be ok now but I’m not certain.

 

[alfazer]

I'm not familiar with this planer but have one of their 1/2" plunging routers and rate it highly.
I was pretty sure they were Australian, but these days I wouldn't doubt it if they are made in the far East somewhere.