Well I went and bought (as well as other booty) the Ryobi Thinnesser at the WW show.

Gave it a run and it works great. Good finish and not overly loud so the guy demonstrating in june must have been the head of richards.

Snipe is an issue as predicted. About 50mm in from each end and prob .2mm deep. Just enough to be annoying but liveable.

So am going to work on reducing this as much as possible.

I adjusted the plates with the rollers so that the rollers were a bees higher than the base as described in an earlier post.

Something I noticed was that the in and outfeed rollers rotate elliptically up and down about 1mm which cant be good.

Like the idea of the 5mm aluminium plate and might go down that track.

Given that though I am really happy...see ---> ....with my choice.

Thanks everyone.

Dazzler