Dan Jansen
07-04-2018, 9:00 PM
I picked up a three year old Grizzly G0453 15" planer today. The planer was upgraded to a Byrd Shelix head about a year after the guy bought it. My experience with wood planers is mixed at best but I brought it home today and went through the manual doing maintenance and resetting all the rollers back to factory settings. Now, as a board passes the chipbreaker it makes a pop or thump sound. I've set it .0040 above the cutterhead as indicated in the manual. My bottom rollers are set at just 0.002 above the deck. Infeed is also 0.040 and outfeed is 0.020 per the manual. I watched from the side as the board passed through and as it passed the chipbreaker it makes a sound. I'm guessing it's the board going up past the breaker and smacking something. There is some snipe but no signs of damage on the board.
I was going to increase the chipbreaker to 0.060 or more to see if I could eliminate the sound but before I did; I thought I'd ask the crowd if there's something obvious I'm missing. Like maybe this always happens but other planers are so loud you don't hear it.
EDIT:It just occurred to me that I probably have the chipbreaker 0.040 below the cutterhead instead of 0.040 above the cutterhead. I'll have to confirm that in the morning but I'll bet it's down way more than it's supposed to be.
I was going to increase the chipbreaker to 0.060 or more to see if I could eliminate the sound but before I did; I thought I'd ask the crowd if there's something obvious I'm missing. Like maybe this always happens but other planers are so loud you don't hear it.
EDIT:It just occurred to me that I probably have the chipbreaker 0.040 below the cutterhead instead of 0.040 above the cutterhead. I'll have to confirm that in the morning but I'll bet it's down way more than it's supposed to be.