hi all just purchased a wickes power planer at the weekend for £20 gave it a try today,
tried on hardwood 30mm x30mm x 300mm , wood was square when i started after planning one face i appeared to have a slight curve over the length of stock.
tried on longer piece of softwood 25mm wide which had a hollow in the middle thinking the planer would flatten it out after a few passess but was not a success, the planer seems to cut more at start of cut than taking a equal amount of down length of wood.
am i going wrong somewere tried old marples plane with better results.
thank you
tried on hardwood 30mm x30mm x 300mm , wood was square when i started after planning one face i appeared to have a slight curve over the length of stock.
tried on longer piece of softwood 25mm wide which had a hollow in the middle thinking the planer would flatten it out after a few passess but was not a success, the planer seems to cut more at start of cut than taking a equal amount of down length of wood.
am i going wrong somewere tried old marples plane with better results.
thank you