Just a reminder to press down harder on the outfeed portion of the board once it gets past the cutter.
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Just a reminder to press down harder on the outfeed portion of the board once it gets past the cutter.
Alan I thought about that later everyone has some form of fancy dancy new type of cutter and im on 50 year old high speed steel stuff.
Going by memory ive measured over .003 wear on knives from when first set up with sharp knives. No idea what the carbide stuff does but his table became high in some fashion so what else would cause that? on my machines a table doesnt go up, they are very heavy tables and even when you move one up its too hard to just turn the adjuster so I push on the end of he table with my body then it is easy to turn the adjuster.
Yes there is. You want this:
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Thanks, Phil.
So I took out my long digital level, and both the infeed and outfeed table are 0.00 degrees, so no longer any issue that may have existed with the distal end of the outfeed table being higher than the proximal end (I do wish I had thought of measuring it before fixing things.)
A new issue - for the first time ever on the jointer I am getting a little snipe. One thing I loved about this jointer is that I never got snipe. I am easily getting boards straight now, just with a little snipe on the end.
BTW, that query about possible cutter wear making the cutters smaller / lower is very interesting. I have been lazy and not periodically moved the fence forward for edge jointing, so wear will be greater on the inside cutters. They are carbide, but I really haven't sent massive amounts of wood through the jointer, so I'm skeptical that they are extremely worn.
What fine tuning do I need to do now to eliminate that snipe?
Just raise the outfeed slightly
Yep, snipe is just because the outfeed table is a hair too low now. You want the sweet spot where you don't get snipe from being too low, but you don't get the crook in your board from being too high.
On my Delta the new blades had to be lowered to fix the snipe. The outfeed was good before so I didn’t want to move it.
The outfeed table on the ad941 can be sticky so if the tech wasn’t tapping the top of the outfeed with a dead blow to “settle” it’s possible it was adjusted then dropped some, this happened to me on my ad941 and it wasn’t until I started wacking it as I was adjusting it that I got it dialed in hasn’t moved since
Take a dead blow hammer and wack on either side of the table tracking ways and see if it goes out of adjustment if not then you are good if it did then what I like to do is adjust to the final position on the up not down due to the table sticking on adjustment. So drop it down wack it until it stops moving (use a dial gauge to observe) then adjust on the up, if you go too far and need to drop the table just be sure to wack it the repeat...
Osvaldo has it right. 4/4 anything will flex enough to cause issues with a jointer. The only place you want pressure is where the board is touching the tables. If the board flexes any, it will not flatten. Hard to imagine your jointer just adjusted itself out of alignment.
Dan
OP is edge jointing a board, you couldnt make that board flex if your life depended on it.