Thread: Thicknessing Painted Timber

Made the same mistake myself once. ( Stress once )

The board was only 600mm long and 120 wide but still ruined the blades.

At $70 for the disposable blades it was an expensive lesson.

Saw my neighbour cleaning up after a major house renovation and noticed he was loading 42 lengths of VJ pine 3.3m long into the skip bin.

Naturally asked if I could have them. Brought them home and the old paint on one side was about 2mm thick.Put them thru my cheap $399 Ryobi thicknesser.

The noise was defening, the dust extractor worked overtime, and naturally, I stuffed a set of planer blades. The first few coates of paint were lead based.

However the blades are double sided and only cost $40 a set so I recovered 138.m of 80x18 hoop pine boards that were milled about 1920 for $20. They did not have a knot in them and were as straight as. All has been reused in furniture projects.

The cheap little thicknessers do have a place in a workshop

Regards Les

Originally Posted by L.D. CHAPMAN

The noise was defening, the dust extractor worked overtime, and naturally, I stuffed a set of planer blades. The first few coates of paint were lead based.

However the blades are double sided and only cost $40 a set so I recovered 138.m of 80x18 hoop pine boards that were milled about 1920 for $20. They did not have a knot in them and were as straight as. All has been reused in furniture projects.

The cheap little thicknessers do have a place in a workshop

Regards Les

Yep, I did the same as Les, except that there were also a couple of nails hiding under all that paint.

I kept the buggered blades, and they are now designated as my "paint strippers".

Cheers

Graeme