setting blades in 6" jointer

[Tony Hartwell]

Hi all, I own a 6" jointer from Hare & Forbes & am having trouble getting the blades set parallel with the table. It's only out a little bit & you can't notice it until you glue up, your flat top now looks like an empty keg, wouldn't mind if it was a full keg http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/smile.gif
I have read a couple of different ways to do it, but I'm always left with one end lower than the other, & the magnetic blade setters that I have seen cost a heap.
Would love some tips on how to do it.
Thanks Tony Hartwell.

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Gooday.

Didn't you get a blade setting gauge with it?

If not let us know.

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Ian () Robertson
"We do good turns every day"

[Rod Smith]

G'day.
I'm not familiar with the paricular jointers adjustment, but the norm is to align the knives with the outfeed table. I use a couple of straight (hand planed) pieces of softwood (about 200 x 20 x20), they have 2 pencil marks about 3mm apart roughly 60mm from one end. Put one each side sitting on the O/F table, line up one mark with the edge of O/F table and rotate cutter head slowly by hand in normal direction, when both sticks move the second line up to the edge you've got it. This method is described in most WW books.
A good method when buzzing the edges for a glue up is to maintain the boards in the same lengthways orientation, ie role them over, then even if the edges aren't square you get a flat glue up. See ya. Rod

[Tony Hartwell]

Hi , no I didn't get a blade setting gauge, when I purchased a 15" thicknesser from Hare & Forbes I got one but not with the 6" jointer, do they normally have one?.

G'day Rod I try to align the knives with the outfeed table, & I try to use the method you describe. The problem comes when I go to tighten the blades into the cutter head, they always seem to move. The 15" thicknesser that I have has springs that push the blades up to setting gauge, so they don't move then you do the final tighten, I have looked for springs to do the same with the 6" jointer but no luck, they would need to be less then 4mm in dia.
Thanks for the tip about rotating the boards when edge gluing.
This is an excellent site thanks for all your help.
Tony Hartwell.

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Gooday.

Rod has said it all.


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Ian () Robertson
"We do good turns every day"

[ubeaut]

Used to have a couple of long dead flat magnets that attatched them selves to the out feed table and to the blade tip and held the blade in suspension whilst they were tightened up. Can't remamber where they came from, don't where they've gone. I think they might have come from a junk yard in Bendigo.

Check out the junk shops, weekend markets, salvage yards etc.

Cheers - Neil http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/smile.gif

[Rod Smith]

Thanks
Hi Tony
I had that problem with my old habco buzzer, but that was due to wear, very annoying! Maybe you have the bolts a little loose causing the blade to move when tightening? Doubt it. Don't know which type of mechanism you have there? Gotta be solution.
Keep thinking and posting. Cheers, Rod