Thicknesser '2'

[Iain]

Got my new toy early this week, a 12 1/2" unit made in Taiwan.
What a pleasure to use and been having a ball flattening out boards etc etc, but, don't these things generate some shavings and dust.
Will have to get the dust collector port.
Also found a good site on Planers for anyone who is interested, overcome the problems associated with sniping etc. http://www.woodshopdemos.com/plan-pm.htm

[John Saxton]

Sniping is generally overcome by not attacking such topics as the BBBL. http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[Iain]

I would never attack the late BBBL, may it rest in peace. http://www.ubeaut.biz/zzzsleep.gif
How do you snipe with a planer?, I have trouble getting up a tree with it to a good vantage point.
Actually, before reading the link, I always thought snip was a form of kick back from the spinning blades.

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[Vonrek]

Speaking of Snipe and such things, I once saw a jig in an american WW magazine which was designed to flatten/untwist/unwind boards with a planer. The thing consisted of a frame approx 6 feet long with individual crossmembers every 2-3 inches or so that were independantly adjustable up and down over a few inch travel. This allowed a twisted or cupped board to be completely supported along its length and width so that when it was run through the planer, along with the under frame, the rollers of the planer did not flatten it out and produce an evenly thicknesed twisted board. I dont have a planer and I would guess that this set up would take a bit of fiddling to get the depth of cut right, but in the absence of a long bed jointer it may be helpful??

Sorry, can't remember which mag it was, but I feel it was either American Woodworker or Popular Woodworking, both of which have websites and I believe good search capacity for old articles.

Anyway, just thought I'd chuck ths in. I've seen a few ideas on overcoming snipe, one being a permanent extended sub-base which sits inside and extends out either side of the thicknesser, thinking about this one got me thinking of the other one and hence this post.

Cheers, Tim

[soundman]

I seem to recolect a anti snipe article in fine woodworking several years ago that had a sub base that went right thru the thicknesser with adjustments for straight.

[Iain]

I think the link has addressed that point, it is a 6' length of melamine mdf that bypasses the infeed and outfeed rollers, I will try it.

[RETIRED]

Gooday,

It extends the table so that the timber doesn't "kick" when exiting the feed rollers.

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

[DPB]

Ian, I have a book with the anti-sniping bed detailed. Contains a brief article and a drawing for construction purposes. If interested, I'll fax it to you.