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A story of intrigue and snipe :wink:
Well, it all started many years ago. In the year of the yellow toed bull frog if I'm not mistaken :-k
An old Chinese engineer decided that his company should design a NEW innovative planer thicknesser and take the world by storm. This would assure his company undreamt of profits and secure him a place in heaven [-o<
However, the marketing dept said - stuff that :twisted: !! Too expensive. let's simply rip-off the Elektra Beckum model instead, paint it different colours and ship it to any English company that will sell one. So they did :wink:
They copied it down to the last detail (allegedly) and even included some little brackets on the thicknesser table - but no-one ever sold anything to fix to them
Now, the story gets interesting. One day a veritable genius (a modest one :wink: ) was making a new mobile base for his SIP version of the P/T
and thought "I've had about enough of this snipe and I'm gonna use those little brackets to fix it
Those brackets:
A piece of 8mm aluminium sheet that was lieing around the garage and so was utilised as an outfeed table (MDF would probably do). The sheet was cut with a jigsaw. Aluminium is a pain to saw, it clogs teeth on saws and files!! When I was an apprentice ( a, ahem, few years ago ), the foreman got us to use chalk on files and oil on blades.
3-in-1 on the blade stopped it clogging - on the second piece; forgot on the first
Drill (5mm) and tap 6mm holes to mount with cap head set-screws in the pre-counterbored holes in the brackets as shown here:
On checking the plate, I found it was perfectly aligned with the thicknesser table :shock: Those chinese are good :wink: :roll:
I planed some 18mm ply down to the level of the planer table and screwed it to he outfeed table from below with 4 woodscrews. I gave it a couple of coats of wax too.
I ran a piece of wood through and got ZERO snipe on the rear of the board BUT some snipe on the front - when feeding it in :roll:
So, I repeated the build for the infeed table and ran a new piece of wood through. ZERO :shock: :shock: snipe on both ends ccasion5: (hammer)
This wood went straight through the planer before the mod and gave 1mm+ sipe at both ends.
The following photo shows it after passing through when the mod was completed :lol: Snipeless =D>
Picture of wood being fed in (because I had one in my camera!)
Well, it all started many years ago. In the year of the yellow toed bull frog if I'm not mistaken :-k
An old Chinese engineer decided that his company should design a NEW innovative planer thicknesser and take the world by storm. This would assure his company undreamt of profits and secure him a place in heaven [-o<
However, the marketing dept said - stuff that :twisted: !! Too expensive. let's simply rip-off the Elektra Beckum model instead, paint it different colours and ship it to any English company that will sell one. So they did :wink:
They copied it down to the last detail (allegedly) and even included some little brackets on the thicknesser table - but no-one ever sold anything to fix to them
Now, the story gets interesting. One day a veritable genius (a modest one :wink: ) was making a new mobile base for his SIP version of the P/T
and thought "I've had about enough of this snipe and I'm gonna use those little brackets to fix it
Those brackets:
A piece of 8mm aluminium sheet that was lieing around the garage and so was utilised as an outfeed table (MDF would probably do). The sheet was cut with a jigsaw. Aluminium is a pain to saw, it clogs teeth on saws and files!! When I was an apprentice ( a, ahem, few years ago
), the foreman got us to use chalk on files and oil on blades. 3-in-1 on the blade stopped it clogging - on the second piece; forgot on the first
Drill (5mm) and tap 6mm holes to mount with cap head set-screws in the pre-counterbored holes in the brackets as shown here:
On checking the plate, I found it was perfectly aligned with the thicknesser table :shock: Those chinese are good :wink: :roll:
I planed some 18mm ply down to the level of the planer table and screwed it to he outfeed table from below with 4 woodscrews. I gave it a couple of coats of wax too.
I ran a piece of wood through and got ZERO snipe on the rear of the board BUT some snipe on the front - when feeding it in :roll:
So, I repeated the build for the infeed table and ran a new piece of wood through. ZERO :shock: :shock: snipe on both ends
ccasion5: (hammer)This wood went straight through the planer before the mod and gave 1mm+ sipe at both ends.
The following photo shows it after passing through when the mod was completed :lol: Snipeless =D>
Picture of wood being fed in (because I had one in my camera!)
