Timeline for Thicknesser is not cutting properly anymore
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 15:42 | comment | added | aaron | @Jty.tan - excellent, I'm glad this worked out.... sounds like a lot of work to reorient all of them :) | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 23:31 | comment | added | Jty.tan | @graphus, you got it right too. :D | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 23:26 | comment | added | Jty.tan | @aaron, you were right... The individual cutterheads weren't oriented the right way. Basically, the manual said rotate them one direction, but it was actually the other direction that I needed to rotate them. Since I was able to just rotate them by partially unscrewing them, I never checked to see if it was right. Oops. | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 1:03 | comment | added | Dave Smylie | Are you 100% sure that you have the blades facing the right way? I can say (sadly from experience) that that's exactly the amount and type of tear out I'd expect from having blades inserted backwards | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 16:13 | answer | added | Ashlar♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | aaron | silly question, but are the individual cutterheads oriented the right way face up vs face down? | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 13:36 | comment | added | Jacob Edmond | What model planer are you working with? Do you have multiple feed speeds? Also is this a helical cutter head or perhaps is it actually a spiral cutter head? Are you fighting resistance to get the material through the planer? | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 13:04 | comment | added | keshlam | Are you sure you fed the board through in the right direction, and are not cutting against the grain? | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 11:39 | comment | added | Maxime Morin | Did you have proper dust collection installed for your test? Are all the marks mostly in the early wood (lighter colored grain)? | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 11:20 | comment | added | Graphus | That would seem to point to the edges being at fault, or their positioning maybe? I don't know helical heads firsthand so I don't know how much potential there is for the blades to be fitted not quite right. | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | Jty.tan | That was definitely in the realm of "as little material as possible". I've done deeper cuts with pine before, but this time around, as I'd just unscrewed and screwed back on all of those blades, I was leery about trying to do anything major without first testing it... | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 11:09 | comment | added | Graphus | Not confident enough to put this in as an Answer but that looks like classic tearout. The wood's grain is the always the starting point for tearout, but common causes on the equipment side are edges that aren't as sharp as they could be or trying to take too much off in one pass. Are you getting the same effect if you adjust the thicknesser to take off the minimum amount of material? | |
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