Matt Ellis
06-09-2008, 12:54 PM
I'm still relatively new to this game, and am trying to get a my garage set up. My tools consist mostly of hand held power tools along with a Grizzly 1023 TS and a G0453 planer that I bought last december.
I have played with the planer here and there, but really started using it this weekend. Last week, I scored about 325 bf of clear red oak and 350 bf of yellow pine. Total cost was $400. Not the deal some of you guys score, but fairly decent for lumber that had been stored for about 5 years and has a moisture content of 6%.
Anyway, i started surfacing some of this weekend, and had to remove the dust hood from the planer, as it was constantly getting plugged up. When plugged, chips would fall onto the board, then be pressed into the surface when passing through the outfeed rollers. I assume it is set up to be run with a dust collector, which I am currently lacking.
Everything worked fine after I pulled the dust port, except when standing down-wind of the planer, waiting on the board to come through...I don't know what snow storms feel like, since they aren't that frequent in middle GA, but it has to be a similar feeling! My thought was to try to build some directional baffles out cardboard or something similar to try to control the chip flow, without plugging the machine. Anyone else have any thoughts or similar experiences?
-matt
I have played with the planer here and there, but really started using it this weekend. Last week, I scored about 325 bf of clear red oak and 350 bf of yellow pine. Total cost was $400. Not the deal some of you guys score, but fairly decent for lumber that had been stored for about 5 years and has a moisture content of 6%.
Anyway, i started surfacing some of this weekend, and had to remove the dust hood from the planer, as it was constantly getting plugged up. When plugged, chips would fall onto the board, then be pressed into the surface when passing through the outfeed rollers. I assume it is set up to be run with a dust collector, which I am currently lacking.
Everything worked fine after I pulled the dust port, except when standing down-wind of the planer, waiting on the board to come through...I don't know what snow storms feel like, since they aren't that frequent in middle GA, but it has to be a similar feeling! My thought was to try to build some directional baffles out cardboard or something similar to try to control the chip flow, without plugging the machine. Anyone else have any thoughts or similar experiences?
-matt