Triton TP720 Power Planer: Discontinued — What to Buy Instead

The TP720 was Triton’s 82mm handheld power planer — the standard width for a portable planer, sized to dress the edge of a door or take a twist out of a board.

It is discontinued. Triton’s current handheld planers are the TPL180B, a 180mm triple-blade machine, and a compact mini planer at the other end of the range.

The width jump is significant

An 82mm planer takes a 82mm bite. A 180mm planer takes more than twice that, which changes what the tool is for.

For door edges, fitting and general dressing, 82mm is the right size: light, controllable one-handed at the end of a stroke, and it fits in a toolbox.

At 180mm you are into surface planing — flattening a wide board in one pass rather than several overlapping ones. It is heavier, needs two hands throughout, and is genuinely better at that job.

So the TPL180B is Triton’s replacement in the catalogue rather than a replacement for what you were using. If you want another 82mm planer, Makita, Bosch and DeWalt all make good ones.

Keeping the old one

Handheld planers fail at the drive belt and the blades, and both are consumables.

The belt is a toothed rubber loop, cheap and generic in many cases — measure it and search by dimensions rather than by model number if the Triton part is unavailable.

Blades for 82mm planers are a standard size: reversible tungsten carbide double-edged blades fit almost every 82mm machine regardless of brand. That is worth knowing, because it means a discontinued 82mm planer is not stranded for consumables.

Setting a planer up

Whatever you buy, the outfeed shoe must be exactly level with the top of the blade arc. Too low and the planer digs in at the end of every pass; too high and it rides out of the cut. Check it with a straight edge across both shoes with the blade at top dead centre — it is the single adjustment that decides whether a planer is pleasant or infuriating.