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PLANING
• Take care when setting the side guides. The rear
guide must be at the exact level of the cutter's
outer diameter. The two guides must be parallel
and set so that boards are fed slightly obliquely
(towards the left approximately 5 mm in total)
through the machine. This entails that boards will
be pressed against the feed roller guides.
• If larger quantities of a moulding are to be pla-
ned, there is an extra locking screw to secure the
movable cutter. The locking screw is countersunk
in a hole at the top of the slide.
• In-feed and out-feed table. Make sure that they
are mounted at exactly the same height and angle
as the planer table.
• If you want to retain a rough-sawn surface on the
board, for e.g. cladding to be painted, this side is
turned down.
• The compression springs of the feed rollers must
be adjusted so that the feed rollers balance on
the workpiece. If the feed rollers are positioned
obliquely over the workpiece, they can pull
• If the knives in the top cutter are adjusted outward
too much, the last feed roller will not engage.
Recommended protrusion is 1 mm.
• There will be lots of chips. If you want to blow the
chips out of a heated room, construct a chip cham-
ber so that the warm room air can be recovered.
Otherwise the room will quickly cool.
To save a setup
If you are making a moulding that you know you will
be making again later, it can be wise to take a few
steps before tearing down the setup so as to be able to
quickly set up the machine to make the same moulding
on a later occasion.
1. Save an approximately 0.5 m long piece of the
planed moulding.
2. Store the spacers together with the knives for the
right and left cutters.
3. Note the setting on the table height scale as well
as the rotating scale on the height adjustment
crank's position, i.e. note exactly at which height
the planer table is set. Also measure the planed
moulding. Note the dimensions of the saved
moulding piece.
Quick setup:
1. Position the side cutters with the moulding knives
and their associated spacers.
2. Set the side guides with the setting ruler.
3. Insert the saved moulding piece into the planer
and align the side cutter with the moulding.
4. Make sure that the moulding piece rests against
the side guide and slide it under the top cutter.
Raise the planer table so that the planer knife
touches the moulding piece. Slide the moulding
knives into the top cutter and place them laterally
so that they fit into the moulding piece.
5. Fine-tune the height adjustment of the table with
the rotating scale according to the notes on the
moulding piece.
obliquely; moreover, there will be deeper marks
caused by the roller grooves. Balancing the feed
rollers is especially important when planing nar-
row workpieces.
