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To Plane cupped Wood (fig. 12)
To obtain the best possible results with cupped wood:
Rip the material down the middle and plane
it as two separate pieces.
Ripping the material reduces the severity of
the cup and allows the machine to deliver
better results. Understand that you will
have to remove more material on cupped
wood to achieve the desired thickness than you would on a normal board.
If ripping the material is not an option:
Plane one side of the material until flat, then plane the opposite side until it
is also flat.
NOTE: Do not flip the board back and forth between each pass as
recommended by the general planing directions.
To Plane Bowed Wood (fig. 13)
The feed rollers and cutter head in your planer will push the bow out of
the material as it feeds. However, when the material exits the planer, the
pressure of the rollers
and cutter head will release allowing the wood to spring back into a bowed
formation. To properly remove the bow, use a jointer.
boweD wooD will be
FlatteneD by FeeD rollers anD
cutter HeaD…
… but bow will return aFter
wooD is PlaneD
Fig.13
Changing the Planer Knives (Fig. 14 – 19)
WARNING: DISCONNECT THE PLANER FROM THE POWER SOURCE
toP Flat
bottom Flat
Fig.12
TO CHANGE PLANER KNIVES
1. Use the T-wrench to remove the four screws in the top of the planer.
2. Lift the top off (Fig. 14) and place it aside.
3. Remove the three wing nuts that seal the dust shroud over the cutter
head.
4. Rotate the dust shroud up so the round connection that locks onto the
fan housing is in the open position (Fig. 15).
5. Push the dust shroud to the left so it disengages from the fan housing.
Fig. 15
Fig. 14
6. Take the dust shroud out of the unit (Fig. 16) and set it aside.
7. The cutter head is now exposed.
If the eight screws in the cutter head clamp are not visible, use a piece
of scrap wood to carefully rotate the cutter head (Fig. 17) until the
screws are accessible and the cutter head lock lever (R) engages. This
will prevent further rotation of the cutter head as you change the knives.
WARNING: KEEP YOUR FINGERS AWAY FROM THE cutter head
AT ALL TIMES. USE THE TOOL PROVIDED TO HANDLE THE
KNIVES.
8. Use the T-wrench to remove the eight screws on the knife clamp and
set them in the small screws bin (S) on the front panel of the planer (Fig.
18).
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