Operation Tips
•Inspect lumber for defects, warping, cup- ping, twisting, and for foreign objects (nails, staples, imbedded gravel, etc,). If you have any question about the quality of your lum- ber, do not use it. Remember, wood stacked on a concrete floor can have small pieces of stone or concrete pressed into the surface.
•Use the full width of the planer. Alternate between the left, the right, and the middle when feeding lumber into the planer. Your cutters will remain sharp much longer.
•Scrape all glue off joined boards before plan- ing.
•Plane ONLY natural wood fiber. DO NOT plane MDF, plywood, laminates, or other synthetic products.
•Plane wood with the grain. Never feed
•Do not use boards with loose or large knots, splits, crossgrain or other obvious blemishes or defects. They can damage the machine and pose the possibility of operator injury.
•Keep your work area clear.
•When making multiple passes on long stock, use the stock return rollers on the top of the machine to move the material back to the infeed side of the machine.
•Avoid planing wood with a high water con- tent. Wood with more than 20% moisture content or wood exposed to excessive mois- ture (such as rain or snow), will plane poorly and cause excessive wear to the cutters and motor. Excess moisture can also hasten rust and corrosion of the planer and/or individual components.
Feed Speed
The infeed and outfeed rollers power the stock through the planer while keeping boards flat and providing a consistent rate of movement.
The power feed features 16 FPM and 20 FPM feed rates. The speed should be changed ONLY when the machine is running.
Figure 10 illustrates the three different positions of the feed control knob. Moving the knob toward the machine (Position A) produces the 20 FPM feed speed; moving away from the machine (Position C) produces 16 FPM; and moving the knob to the center position (Position B) places the gearbox in neutral.
NOTICE
Change the speeds when the planer is run- ning, but DO NOT attempt to change speeds during any cutting operations or damage to the gearbox will result.
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