Dave Zellers
03-18-2012, 2:16 PM
So I'm tuning up my planer that I bought used about 2 years ago and have a couple questions.
The area around the cutter head on the gear side had some oily sawdust accumulated there with a little also on that end of the chip breaker so the seal must be leaking or is a small amount of leakage normal? I replaced the gear box oil when I bought it and I have never seen any evidence of oil on the planned boards. Any problem with just leaving things alone? (my preference)
Also- after meticulously setting newly sharpened knives, I'm getting a little less than 1/64" difference in thickness between the right and left ends. The cause of this seems to be confirmed by the upper body not being perfectly parallel to the bed.
So- here's my problem. There is no way I can tip the planer on it's side as the instructions say to adjust the sprockets and fix the alignment. Can this be done with the planer upright on it's stand? I have the older model stand with open sides. Also, will moving a sprocket 1 tooth fix a less than 1/64th difference?
I sharpen my own knives and use magnetic planer pals to set them so I guess I could insert a feeler gauge to make up this difference when I set the knives but I'd prefer to have everything adjusted perfectly if that's possible.
Thanks for reading. What would you do?
The area around the cutter head on the gear side had some oily sawdust accumulated there with a little also on that end of the chip breaker so the seal must be leaking or is a small amount of leakage normal? I replaced the gear box oil when I bought it and I have never seen any evidence of oil on the planned boards. Any problem with just leaving things alone? (my preference)
Also- after meticulously setting newly sharpened knives, I'm getting a little less than 1/64" difference in thickness between the right and left ends. The cause of this seems to be confirmed by the upper body not being perfectly parallel to the bed.
So- here's my problem. There is no way I can tip the planer on it's side as the instructions say to adjust the sprockets and fix the alignment. Can this be done with the planer upright on it's stand? I have the older model stand with open sides. Also, will moving a sprocket 1 tooth fix a less than 1/64th difference?
I sharpen my own knives and use magnetic planer pals to set them so I guess I could insert a feeler gauge to make up this difference when I set the knives but I'd prefer to have everything adjusted perfectly if that's possible.
Thanks for reading. What would you do?