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Thickness Planer Feed Issue
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Thickness Planer Feed Issue
I just replaced my old knives with a helical cutterhead in a Jet 15″ planer and am having issues with a test piece feeding through. Has anyone experienced this before? Have any idea what’s causing it?
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Is there an adjustment for how close the feed rollers are to the cutter ?
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You will need a adjust the infeed roller in reference to the new cutter head. I’ve made the adjustment on a Jet planer years ago. There is a reference piece of wood you need to make so it sits on the table and you your raise it up until it touches the cutter and then compare it to the infeed roller. If I can find the reference piece at work I’ll snap a picture but, you should be able to find what you need online.
There are also adjustments to the bed rollers that can be made with a straight edge.
If memory serves me, it’s all explained in the manual which you can probably find online as a PDF if you don’t have it.
Takes some time to dial in but once you do, it will be sweet.
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Thanks again Ian and everyone for your help. I was able to get this working. The infeed/outfeed rollers needed to be raised to the new cutterhead size. It was easy, once I knew what to do.
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