Shop fox W1692, Instruction Manual

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Figure 19. Board position on table.
Figure 20.
Typical cutterhead knife at bottom
dead center (BDC).
Figure 21. Feed roller adjustment.
Feed Rollers and
Chip Breaker
The feed rollers and the chip breaker are
factory set for general planing. If you need to
alter the settings or reset them after
maintenance, these components can be
adjusted at the same time, assuming that the
knife height is set correctly. The standard
setting for the infeed roller and the
chipbreaker is 0.004"-0.008" below the
cutterhead knife at bottom dead center. The
outfeed roller should be set to 0.020" below
the cutterhead knife at bottom dead center.
To accurately perform this adjustment, you
will need a dial indicator (not included). Refer
to
Planer Accessories
on
pages 34
and
35
for
more details.
To adjust the feed rollers and the chip
breaker make sure you have adjusted the
table as outlined on page 14 first, then do
these steps:
1. UNPLUG THE PLANER!
2.
You will need two boards that are the
same height and are long enough to span
the entire length of the table. An easy way
to get two boards of the same height is to
rip one board down the middle of its
thickness.
3. Place each board across the entire length
of the table, on each side of the table,
similar to
Figure 19 .
4. Rotate the cutterhead with the V-belt
pulley so one of the knives is at bottom
dead center. Bottom dead center is the
furthest point down that the knife reaches
in its rotation. The black line underneath
the cutterhead in
Figure 20
represents
bottom dead center.
5. Raise the table up until the boards barely
touch the knife edge.
6.
Lower the feed rollers onto the boards using
the feed roller adjustment setscrew shown
in
Figure 21
.
Feed Roller
Adjustment
Setscrew
and
Jam Nut
ADJUSTMENTS
BDC