RogerS
Established Member
Something has gone wrong with my planer technique and I am stumped. Planer in question is CT150.
I cut a length of timber (ordinary softwood from DIY store)...about 1 yd long and about 1 inch thick...on the table saw. Checking the cut with my straight edge shows the cut side to be pretty straight but with saw cuts.
Transfer to the planer. Now for some reason I cannot simply plane all the way down the cut side. I can hear the cutters working for the first 6" and then all goes quiet. When I look at the cut edge I can see where the cutter blades have planed and then the rest of the cut edge where nothing has happened.
I am keeping pressure on the timber on the outfeed table. I have checked the bed and it seems straight enough across the infeed/outfeed table length using a metre rule. OK...I can slip a very thin piece of paper under the metre rule near where the cutter assembly is ...but it is a very thin piece of paper.
On a separate (but possibly related) issue I tried planing a bevel on apiece of timber. The bevel starts off OK but as it progresses down the length of timber (again 1 yard long or so) it goes off axis (in other words the bevel does not go parallel to the axis of the timber). I have checked that the fence is at right angles to the cutter blades.
I can't work out what I am doing wrong.
I cut a length of timber (ordinary softwood from DIY store)...about 1 yd long and about 1 inch thick...on the table saw. Checking the cut with my straight edge shows the cut side to be pretty straight but with saw cuts.
Transfer to the planer. Now for some reason I cannot simply plane all the way down the cut side. I can hear the cutters working for the first 6" and then all goes quiet. When I look at the cut edge I can see where the cutter blades have planed and then the rest of the cut edge where nothing has happened.
I am keeping pressure on the timber on the outfeed table. I have checked the bed and it seems straight enough across the infeed/outfeed table length using a metre rule. OK...I can slip a very thin piece of paper under the metre rule near where the cutter assembly is ...but it is a very thin piece of paper.
On a separate (but possibly related) issue I tried planing a bevel on apiece of timber. The bevel starts off OK but as it progresses down the length of timber (again 1 yard long or so) it goes off axis (in other words the bevel does not go parallel to the axis of the timber). I have checked that the fence is at right angles to the cutter blades.
I can't work out what I am doing wrong.