I’m getting planer ripple on the left side of my boards. I’ve attached a few pictures to show (they’re supposed to be vertical). I have an old Bridgewood 15” planer that is 30 years old. Runs great, just trying to fix this problem. Before you ask, the knives are set correctly, and the spacing is too far apart to be a high knife. I’m thinking it could possibly be a bad bearing in the infeed/outfeed roller on that side? Or possibly a bad bearing in the cutter head? The infeed and outfeed rollers both have subtle play in the bushing blocks on this side of the machine. Is that normal? Maybe the compression springs need replaced? I’d like to order a few parts and see if I can fix this but not sure exactly where to start.
Thanks for the help!
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