http://www.woodworkingmatters.com/My_Shop/planer_sled.htm Found this
page while looking for something else entirely, which is the way it
usually happens. I haven't tried this yet, but sounds like it
definitely has potential.
JOAT
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you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
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Web Page Update 22 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
On 23 Jan 2004 21:41:22 -0500, DJ Delorie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>[email protected] (T.) writes:
>> http://www.woodworkingmatters.com/My_Shop/planer_sled.htm
>
>I've done this. Works great.
If you buy the MDF already coated with melamine, you can wax it and be
working in 5 minutes! <G>
Barry
While we're on the subject of rollers, how do you all, as a whole, clean the
gunk off them. I screwed up and let sil use mine. Aint real sure what he ran
through it, but it had to be wet pine. Both infeed and out has got crap
built up on them. Didn't know if mineral spirits or alcohol would do it or
not.
--
"Cartoons don't have any deep meaning.
They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh."
Homer Simpson
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"B a r r y B u r k e J r ." <[email protected]> wrote
in message news:[email protected]...
> On 24 Jan 2004 19:27:30 GMT, Rich Shepard
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Pardon my ignorance, but how does the longer infeed and outfeed
platform
> >eliminate snipe? I thought those were a result of the feed rollers not
being
> >on the work being planed so the work piece did not remain the same
distance
> >from the planer's cutters.
>
> As the board is fed in to the front or removed from the back, the end
> of the board that's not in the machine needs to be at or above the
> planer's inner table height. Holding the far end up an inch or so
> until the both rollers grab the stock, or release it on the outfeed,
> will also help a great deal.
>
>
> Longer tables just make it really easy to avoid problems without
> futzing around. Adjusting the built-in in and out tables so the tips
> are higher than the inner table, when weighted, also helps.
>
> Barry
>
On 24 Jan 2004 19:27:30 GMT, Rich Shepard
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but how does the longer infeed and outfeed platform
>eliminate snipe? I thought those were a result of the feed rollers not being
>on the work being planed so the work piece did not remain the same distance
>from the planer's cutters.
As the board is fed in to the front or removed from the back, the end
of the board that's not in the machine needs to be at or above the
planer's inner table height. Holding the far end up an inch or so
until the both rollers grab the stock, or release it on the outfeed,
will also help a great deal.
Longer tables just make it really easy to avoid problems without
futzing around. Adjusting the built-in in and out tables so the tips
are higher than the inner table, when weighted, also helps.
Barry
Yea, He said It came from John Lucas's site.
I heard he's pretty good.
He helped me out 1 time with heat treating a round nose scraper I had made
from a file.
Tony D.
"DJ Delorie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> [email protected] (T.) writes:
> > http://www.woodworkingmatters.com/My_Shop/planer_sled.htm
>
> I've done this. Works great.
On 2004-01-24, T. <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.woodworkingmatters.com/My_Shop/planer_sled.htm Found this page
> while looking for something else entirely, which is the way it usually
> happens. I haven't tried this yet, but sounds like it definitely has
> potential.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does the longer infeed and outfeed platform
eliminate snipe? I thought those were a result of the feed rollers not being
on the work being planed so the work piece did not remain the same distance
from the planer's cutters.
Rich
[email protected] (T.) writes:
> http://www.woodworkingmatters.com/My_Shop/planer_sled.htm
I've done this. Works great.
Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
> Pardon my ignorance, but how does the longer infeed and outfeed platform
> eliminate snipe? I thought those were a result of the feed rollers not being
> on the work being planed so the work piece did not remain the same distance
> from the planer's cutters.
Two things cause snipe:
1. The wood tipping up/down when it enters/leaves the rollers.
2. The planer head moving when the wood enters/leaves the rollers.
If you have a long sled, there's less chance of the wood moving
(tilting down is most common), so the first cause goes away. The sled
basically holds the wood flat, so that it's always in contact with the
sled and thus always the same distance from the cutters.
Can't do anything about the second cause, except get a better planer
(or perhaps grease the guide rods to reduce play a little).