Jim Foster
06-20-2009, 4:33 PM
Hi, I've had an old DC-13 planer for about ten years that I bought use, so I supect it's almost 20 years old. I stopped using it for about three years and recently moved into a new home shop and tuned it up and started to use it. For the life of me I can't get it to feed wood through it, and it has always had this problem since I got it. Since I probably used it less than four hours in all that time, I always figured I 'd tune it us when I had a fair sized project.
Using the factory suggested settings for the infeed roller (serrated) and the outfeed roller (urethane coated) stock will feed for a few minutes then the rollers will just turn, no matter how much spring force I use. The belts are OK, I replaced them and adjusted them, so they are not the culprit. I have all the machinist thickness gauges and have set it three or four times, thinking it's me and I must be in error, but I think I have the machine set fairly accurately.
I only have several hundred dollars into the machine, it was not heavily used before I got it, but...
Question on the outfeed roller; Does the urethane lose it's grip. I've cleaned it a few times but I can't get it to finish feeding a peice even after the piece is completely fed through the cutter head. I've also cleaned the infeed roller pretty good, but the edges or serrations are not very sharp and no amount of spring pressure will force it to feed, it will just spin on the wood. Initially I backed off the spring pressure to as little as possible and tried to adjust a little at a time to see if there is a correct point, but no luck. I tried lowering the infeed and outfeed a little also with no luck. The only thing I did not try was raising them a little from the factory suggestions.
Also baldes are sharp nd based on stock that's been through seem well set.
Any advice?
Using the factory suggested settings for the infeed roller (serrated) and the outfeed roller (urethane coated) stock will feed for a few minutes then the rollers will just turn, no matter how much spring force I use. The belts are OK, I replaced them and adjusted them, so they are not the culprit. I have all the machinist thickness gauges and have set it three or four times, thinking it's me and I must be in error, but I think I have the machine set fairly accurately.
I only have several hundred dollars into the machine, it was not heavily used before I got it, but...
Question on the outfeed roller; Does the urethane lose it's grip. I've cleaned it a few times but I can't get it to finish feeding a peice even after the piece is completely fed through the cutter head. I've also cleaned the infeed roller pretty good, but the edges or serrations are not very sharp and no amount of spring pressure will force it to feed, it will just spin on the wood. Initially I backed off the spring pressure to as little as possible and tried to adjust a little at a time to see if there is a correct point, but no luck. I tried lowering the infeed and outfeed a little also with no luck. The only thing I did not try was raising them a little from the factory suggestions.
Also baldes are sharp nd based on stock that's been through seem well set.
Any advice?