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Thread: Correct use of Ryobi AP13 Planer
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4th January 2014, 10:10 AM #1New Member
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Correct use of Ryobi AP13 Planer
I have just acquired a second hand Ryobi AP 13 planer and need some advice on its correct use. I have no previous experience with such machines. I have read the manual but it was of no use. I assume logically that the timber is fed into the planer from the on/off switch side of the unit? The timber does not want to feed. I took the side off the unit and observed the direction of the rotation of the cutter head and the feed rollers. The cutter head revolves anti-clockwise and the feed rollers clockwise when viewed from the raise/lower crank handle side of the unit. This suggests that the timber needs to be fed in from the opposite side to the switch side of the unit. Is this correct? If not then what do I need to do to correct the problem?
Cheers, Ken
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4th January 2014, 10:59 AM #2
Which side are the anti kick back catches? Because they will only allow it to feed in one way. The electrical connections in the motor could have got crossed over to have it end up going the wrong way, which should be easy to fix for some one who knows about these things but difficult to explain without seeing it. If it was easy to put back wrong, it should be easy to put right but then we do not know who, if anyone was in it.
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4th January 2014, 07:29 PM #3
Hi Ken
Welcome to the forum.
It is likely that you are trying to take too thick a cut, and that the rollers are too low to allow the board in. Try a lighter cut.
Also look through YouTube for examples. Should be many.
Regards from Perth
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5th January 2014, 06:13 PM #4New Member
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Hi Hugh, Thank you for the comments.I will take the unit to the local electrical motor repair man and get him to check the the electrical connections. Out of curiosity, where are the anti-kick back catches located and what do they look like? Do they physically stop the timber or do they act on the feed rollers?
Cheers, Ken
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5th January 2014, 10:08 PM #6
Hi,
They are a row of metal do hickies that hang across the entrance before the feed roller, they push up and let the plank in but can not swing back so if the plank tries to kick back they jam it. If something goes wrong and you want to pull the job back they wont allow that either, you have to switch off and raise the head until they clear.
Hope that makes sense.
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6th January 2014, 07:00 AM #7I now have 3 sheds
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Hi disasterrisk
The earlier model Ryobi AP13's (like mine) don't have any anti-kickback fingers fitted.
Just had a quick look at mine and your cutterhead and infeed/outfeed rollers do appear to be running in reverse. I'm taking a stab in the dark here but if the previous owner had replaced the OEM 3-pin power plug could it have been re-wired in reverse polarity? Just a thought.
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6th January 2014, 03:19 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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The other issue you need to address is that the cutters are set correctly,if they are too low you would be lowering the cutter head to try and cut which then jams the timber under the feed rollers.
If you don't have a manual seach on the net,you will find one there which may well answer all your questions and give you all the settings you need for successful use.
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9th January 2014, 06:15 PM #9Senior Member
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There is no such thing as reverse polarity making a motor run in reverse by stuffing up the wiring in single phase AC .
You can however turn all the metal bits of the thicknesser live by connecting the active to the earth so make sure the brown wire isn't connected to any green wires
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What you observed with the rollers is correct - the cutter head should rotate in the opposite direction to the feed rollers. I have gone to a more powerful thicknesser, but I remember my Ryobi sometimes just refused to feed occasionally for some unknown reason - I just stopped it, wound the head up then down a bit after removing the timber & everything went OK. The wood travels with the rubber rollers and against the cutter head's rotation.
Some thoughts: try it with a piece of scrap/off cut pine instead of hardwood. Check that the knives in the cutter head are sharp & the right way around. Set the infeed & outfeed tables carefully using a long straight edge right through the machine so all three surfaces are lined up - that way you shouldn't get a board tilting up & hitting any of the inner workings, stopping it feeding - it also helps reduce snipe - I have had a piece get a bit out of straight horizontally and foul the side of the feed space rather than the overhead bits.
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14th January 2014, 11:29 AM #11New Member
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Just got the unit back from the electric motor repair shop. The unit previously had new fields and bushes installed and these had been incorrectly wired. Unit now runs in the correct direction. Thanks for your comments. PS this unit does not have the anti-kickback fingers.. regards Ken
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14th January 2014, 11:41 AM #12New Member
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Hi Twosheds, thanks for the comments. See my current reply to A Duke, the unit was wired incorrectly. How is Soldiers Point these days, I worked for Port Stephens Shire in the 50/60s when the Point was a fishing village at the end of a dirt road which was subject to flooding by high tides.
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