POWERMATIC 54A/54HH 6” Jointer
Creating flat, straight surfaces is crucial in the quest to build elegant
projects. Virtually all forms of joinery and the tools that cut them
depend on straight edges and square cuts. The POWERMATIC
54A/54HH 6” Jointer makes it easy to achieve the high levels of
accuracy you need in this always-crucial operation.
The Powermatic 54A/54HH
6” Jointer has been designed
and built to provide the
u7ltimate in accuracy and
dependability.
Base Cabinet
The 21”-wide by 13”-deep all steel base cabinet provides stable footing
for the POWERMATIC 54A/54HH 6” Jointer and puts the table
surface at a comfortable 32” above the floor.
The 1 HP, 1Ph, 115/230V motor (pre-wired 115V) is factory-mounted
within the base cabinet and can be converted to use 230V power should
that be desirable. The motor is on a special mount within the base cabinet
that allows the user to adjust belt tension should that become necessary.
The all-steel base cabinet
not only provides stable
footing for the jointer, it
houses the motor and dust
collection outlet.
The base also contains the dust collection chute that evacuates debris
from below the cutterhead. The chute guides that debris to the exterior
4”-diameter port near the floor. Locating the outlet port near the floor
helps keep the hose out of the way and puts it at a similar height as the
inlet of our popular dust collectors such as the PM1300.
3-Knife Cutterhead (54A Model)
The POWERMATIC 54A Jointer features a 3-knife cutterhead fitted
with adjustment cams that make setting critical knife height easy
and extremely accurate. Each knife is 6 1/16”-long, ¾”-tall and
5/64”-thick and made from high quality steel.
The knives are secured by a set of 4 gib screws and a gib plate.
Below each knife are two adjustment cams. The included manual
provides complete instructions (with illustrations) that make
changing and setting the knives easy. They even show how to offset
one or more of the knives for cutting small rabbets or to compensate for small nicks in a knife.
The 54A cutterhead (top in this
photo) features our Quick Set
knife system that uses cams to
position the knives precisely so
they cut smoothly and work
together equally to disperse wear.
Helical Cutterhead (54HH Model)
There are many cutterhead designs that carry the helical moniker, including simple straight
blades broken into segments and dispersed around the cutterhead cylinder. However, despite the
name, they retain many of the liabilities of the long blade designs. While designing the
POWERMATIC 54HH 6” Jointer we wanted to incorporate the performance of a true
segmented, shear-cutting helical head.
