Mark Walden
07-05-2014, 9:34 PM
I got a great deal on a Grizzly G8794 planer that came with extra knives. The
G8794 is a older model about 10 years or so that has 12 1/2 x 1/16 x 3/4 double sided blade. The blades that came with it are 12 1/2 x 1/8 x 3/4, and NO they didn't fit. Somebody was going to be bummed out. Ordered new blades from Grizzly, it took me about a hour to set 2 blades. The G8794 has springs on each end of the cutter head, probably to protect the unused side, no jack screws to bring the blade back up, and of course no gauge came with it.
Has anyone used the Mini Magnetic Planer Pals on a machine with 1/16 blades
that are spring loaded, this sucks big time. What I want to know I guess will the springs push the gauge away from the cutter head.
Mark Walden
Walden's Woodworks
G8794 is a older model about 10 years or so that has 12 1/2 x 1/16 x 3/4 double sided blade. The blades that came with it are 12 1/2 x 1/8 x 3/4, and NO they didn't fit. Somebody was going to be bummed out. Ordered new blades from Grizzly, it took me about a hour to set 2 blades. The G8794 has springs on each end of the cutter head, probably to protect the unused side, no jack screws to bring the blade back up, and of course no gauge came with it.
Has anyone used the Mini Magnetic Planer Pals on a machine with 1/16 blades
that are spring loaded, this sucks big time. What I want to know I guess will the springs push the gauge away from the cutter head.
Mark Walden
Walden's Woodworks