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Offline Carl

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Thickness planer rebuild project
« on: January 03, 2012, 06:47:52 PM »

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Re: Thickness planer rebuild project
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 07:26:54 PM »
Moving this to Woodworking.

Nice job there!
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Re: Thickness planer rebuild project
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 07:16:42 AM »
Well done I like the JB weld idea.
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Re: Thickness planer rebuild project
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 08:02:03 AM »
Good Job, Carl!

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Re: Thickness planer rebuild project
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 08:06:39 PM »
Thanks. The JB Weld was my friends idea. I wanted to mill the whole casting down, but this was way easier.

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Re: Thickness planer rebuild project
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 08:52:22 PM »
What on earth could you put through it that would gouge the table like that and not totally demolish the cutting heads?
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Re: Thickness planer rebuild project
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2012, 08:31:53 AM »
What on earth could you put through it that would gouge the table like that and not totally demolish the cutting heads?
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Beats me- I bought it used like that. The blades weren't bad- I had them sharpened at a local lumberyard.