Russell Smallwood
02-07-2011, 9:12 AM
All,
Every so often, and particularly when running longer boards through my planer (453px) the wood seems to get jammed at the end of the pass. Logically, it would seem that it gets "stuck" when it looses contact with the in feed roller, although I don't have any hard evidence of this. I literally have to pull the stock out of the planer at this point, with the end result being some nasty roller dents and a lot of gnashing of teeth.
Is this a common problem? I've set the planer up (twice), rotocator in hand and seem to have it performing flawlessly else wise (except for the occasional snipe now and again).
Then again, it could also be the material. I running cypress through it sans jointer (straight is not necessarily a requirement for this particular application), which means a lot of slightly bowed and cupped boards.
Is this kind of thing expected given the circumstance or do I need to (yet again) go through all of the settings and do some tweaking.
Every so often, and particularly when running longer boards through my planer (453px) the wood seems to get jammed at the end of the pass. Logically, it would seem that it gets "stuck" when it looses contact with the in feed roller, although I don't have any hard evidence of this. I literally have to pull the stock out of the planer at this point, with the end result being some nasty roller dents and a lot of gnashing of teeth.
Is this a common problem? I've set the planer up (twice), rotocator in hand and seem to have it performing flawlessly else wise (except for the occasional snipe now and again).
Then again, it could also be the material. I running cypress through it sans jointer (straight is not necessarily a requirement for this particular application), which means a lot of slightly bowed and cupped boards.
Is this kind of thing expected given the circumstance or do I need to (yet again) go through all of the settings and do some tweaking.