Thread: I fixed the snipe problems in my thicknesser !

yeh, I'm sorry mate. I don't know whats happened there. I can't re-edit to fix it.

EDIT: its fixed. Thanks to wood butcher for that .

I was in Bunnings in Darwin today ,they had a Ryobi thickness for 399.00 .
I had a look at it and its them same set up , no modification at all.
Obviously they dont read this forum

yeh.... thats life I spose. Thats how much I paid for mine too I think.

Hi Jake,
I only just read this thread despite having a thicknesser that takes a snipe out of every board! Its virtually the same machine, reason being I didn't want to face diddling about in my now rare shed time with adjustments here and there, when underneath I knew I'd bought the cheapest nastiest tool in the shop! I just live with it, and cut off the end section of timber. (Bummer when both ends have snipe, after flipping it over & around for grain/feed direction!) I do love having a thicknesser, no matter how cheap, as it makes every task that much easier!
Thanks anyway for your excellent sleuth work and simple fix! When I get too much time or I need to get the absolute max out of some timber I now where to head, without pulling my hair out doing the more usual adjustments.

Cheers,

Credit to this post for the fix to snipe.

Not as keen to drill and tap the very thin castings of my AP13, I chose to make up some collars to sit on top of the castings and prevent the head lifting during a pass.

A few steel collars with cap screws and thumb screws and I too am snipe free.

My God! (or whatever faction you follow) I was one of the great unwashed who was willing to live with the end result of " you get what you pay for "
Collars and thumb screws for me. Thank you all!!!

For those of you without access to collar and thumbscrew making equipment, I've just tried mine with four pine offcut wedges between the bed of the planer and the cutterhead assembly.

I just pushed them in by hand as I went down, and for the final two passes (one each side) did two quarter turns of the height adjuster without removing the chocks and bit into the pine. Worked fine, and the result had no snipe. I'd previously adjusted the infeed and outfeed roller height so it is all level.

I'd recommend this as an easy way to test the thumbscrew approach - that's what I was trying and now I don't think I'll bother making the thumbscrews.

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Guys, many years ago before I bought my unit, I remember reading in a book ( before the net was available) a suggestion to buy a thicknesser that you could lock the columns between each cut. At the time I looked around but could not find a unit that had that feature. Thanks heaps for posting a great description. I will have a look at my unit.