Thread: What's wrong with my thicknesser? Rollers too lower than the blades = jams.

Having had sawing iron before, I knew that a silky table was all important, so luckily I was aware of the possibility of the problem and worked it out for myself. But this forum has been a real friend on other matters.

The TS that came with the thicknesser had the same trouble "Why is the blade not cutting? I am not getting any cut for the push!"...........oh yeah! A clean up and waxing. Muuuuch bedder.............now I gots ta get the stuff out of the blade tilt mechanism...nicely greased up and FULL of sawdust 'pacted in there.

EDIT: Your trap of course was that the machine had seemed fine right up until....I was working with a machine that was giving the problem straight away, so I was not ooking for mechanical problems straight up: I _expected_ bad maintenance.

Sig..I_wannaNOTHER_shed. Seriously, I used to have a 12 * 20 (metres) gutted piggery as a workshop. Still managed to fill it up with cra.....necessary working items. To be fair, it did have a 2 m channel down the middle, which was going to take some filling. But that still left 200m2 of shed floor! I think, apart from the law that says any gaseous object will expand to fill the space available (and we are most of us good gaseous objects!) the more room you have, the more it takes to fill, and the deeper s**t you are in by the time you realise how deep you are in the s**t!