Matt Przybylski
01-05-2019, 3:08 PM
Hello,
I have the aforementioned planer from Grizzly and I'm having 2 issues.
1) No matter what I do, I cannot move the infeed or outfeed rollers manually, its like they're stuck. Even if I put the planer in the neutral gear (which by itself is extremely hard to find because there are no real detents in that knob so I just tried multiple different positions) I cannot move the rollers. The manual says I should be able to at this point and while planing and in neutral, they indeed don't move with the machine but do move otherwise in the high and low RPMs as expected. I just cannot get the darn things to move when the planer is off no matter what I try.
Also worth noting is that the manual directly contradicts itself, as on one page it says to not change the feed speed unless the planer is on, while on the roller adjustment page it says to turn the planer off and adjust the feed speed to neutral after.
2) I'm getting visible lines from the metal serrated infeed planer if I take a very shallow finishing pass. Oddly enough, as far as I can tell, it only happens towards the front of the infeed roller because if I plane on the left side it seems to be fine and on the right side I'm only seeing it slightly to the left where the wood is closer to the middle of the infeed. If I go directly in the middle, a whole 2x4 will have the serrated lines in it. I loosened the tension springs on the rollers as they were way tighter from the factory than they state for them to be in the manual (the large screws should be 1/8" protruding up over the housing, with the fourth one being 5/16" over the housing) but this didn't seem to help either. I'm kind of at a loss here...
My planer came with the updated rubber outfeed roller but it seems like its the infeed roller that is having issues. General planing, otherwise, seems to go well, its just the very shallow final passes which obviously is very frustrating as I'm trying to put a good face at close to final dimensions as I'm finishing my planing operations.
I have the aforementioned planer from Grizzly and I'm having 2 issues.
1) No matter what I do, I cannot move the infeed or outfeed rollers manually, its like they're stuck. Even if I put the planer in the neutral gear (which by itself is extremely hard to find because there are no real detents in that knob so I just tried multiple different positions) I cannot move the rollers. The manual says I should be able to at this point and while planing and in neutral, they indeed don't move with the machine but do move otherwise in the high and low RPMs as expected. I just cannot get the darn things to move when the planer is off no matter what I try.
Also worth noting is that the manual directly contradicts itself, as on one page it says to not change the feed speed unless the planer is on, while on the roller adjustment page it says to turn the planer off and adjust the feed speed to neutral after.
2) I'm getting visible lines from the metal serrated infeed planer if I take a very shallow finishing pass. Oddly enough, as far as I can tell, it only happens towards the front of the infeed roller because if I plane on the left side it seems to be fine and on the right side I'm only seeing it slightly to the left where the wood is closer to the middle of the infeed. If I go directly in the middle, a whole 2x4 will have the serrated lines in it. I loosened the tension springs on the rollers as they were way tighter from the factory than they state for them to be in the manual (the large screws should be 1/8" protruding up over the housing, with the fourth one being 5/16" over the housing) but this didn't seem to help either. I'm kind of at a loss here...
My planer came with the updated rubber outfeed roller but it seems like its the infeed roller that is having issues. General planing, otherwise, seems to go well, its just the very shallow final passes which obviously is very frustrating as I'm trying to put a good face at close to final dimensions as I'm finishing my planing operations.