Chris Fitzpatrick
01-27-2008, 6:32 PM
Just received my new planer, a Grizzly 20" G1033X. Well I had a Dewalt
before this & never adjusted anything, just popped in the blades & away we go. Now I have to check the height of the infeed roller, outfeed roller, bed rollers, chip breaker, pressure bar!! I'm glad to have it, but it's a bit
daunting at 1st. So while reading the manual they say all these were set at the factory but to check them. Haven't yet but I will as I hear a bit of
chattering. Grizzly says the infeed,outfeed roller, chip breaker & pressure
bar should all be 0.040" below the DBC of the blade arc. I happened to
Google the set up & found a great video stream.
I found this very helpful, a guy called Bob Vaughan, it looks old, but still
very informative. He claims the pressure bar should be -0.003 & the others should be about 0.32.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-986589700074242027&q=bob+vaughn&hl=en (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-986589700074242027&q=bob+vaughn&hl=en)
So my question is what are your experiences? Have you checked & measured all this in your machines and do you keep your pressure bar a tad shy of the DBC of the blade arc? Could something have changed that makes the Grizzly manual correct to keep them all the same? Would you adjust them to 0.40 or Vaughan's recommended 0.32?
Thx,
Chris
before this & never adjusted anything, just popped in the blades & away we go. Now I have to check the height of the infeed roller, outfeed roller, bed rollers, chip breaker, pressure bar!! I'm glad to have it, but it's a bit
daunting at 1st. So while reading the manual they say all these were set at the factory but to check them. Haven't yet but I will as I hear a bit of
chattering. Grizzly says the infeed,outfeed roller, chip breaker & pressure
bar should all be 0.040" below the DBC of the blade arc. I happened to
Google the set up & found a great video stream.
I found this very helpful, a guy called Bob Vaughan, it looks old, but still
very informative. He claims the pressure bar should be -0.003 & the others should be about 0.32.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-986589700074242027&q=bob+vaughn&hl=en (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-986589700074242027&q=bob+vaughn&hl=en)
So my question is what are your experiences? Have you checked & measured all this in your machines and do you keep your pressure bar a tad shy of the DBC of the blade arc? Could something have changed that makes the Grizzly manual correct to keep them all the same? Would you adjust them to 0.40 or Vaughan's recommended 0.32?
Thx,
Chris