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- From: eap@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Edward A. Parrish)
- Subject: Re: Sniping thread, please???
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- References: <HOLLEN.93Jan18075054@peg.megatek.UUCP> <6210@ceylon.gte.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:50:17 GMT
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- In article <6210@ceylon.gte.com> boykin@gte.com writes:
- >In article <HOLLEN.93Jan18075054@peg.megatek.UUCP>, hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
- >|> Well, as invariably happens, just when I think I don't need some
- >|> thread, a couple of weeks later, I do. I just bought a thickness
- >|> planer and now I need the thread which explains how to minimize
- >|> sniping. I have adjusted in/outfeed tables very carefully and the
- >|> cutterhead height from left to right and all that, but still get about
- >|> 2 1/2" of snipe on the end of a 2' board (the only size I had
- >|> available to try to plane).
- >
- >Relatively speaking, I think adjustment of the in/out-feed tables is a
- >small part of end-snipe. Sniping occurs at the beginning or end of a
- >board when the board is not being controlled by the rollers before &
- >after the cutter head. For the planer you have, with relatively small
- >in/out-feed tables, almost any size board will snipe unless you use use
- >additional supports.
- >
- >I have a Grizzly 15" planer with fairly large tables (about 2' of support
- >on each end). I've played around and don't get any sniping for boards
- >that stay completely on the table (roughly 2' long). Anything past that
- >and you need to be careful and add extra supports.
- >
- >Making sure those extra supports are level is harder than keeping the
- >planer's tables level, but well worth every minute it takes (unless you
- >like loosing the first/last foot of every board you plane!)
-
- Well - I'll admit up front to the purists that this is probably
- cheating, but then I am not patient enough to continue tinkering with
- the various settings and alignments to eliminate the sniping. My 12"
- Delta planer does a great job, but does snipe some on the end, of
- course. My solution is to feed a piece of scrap along with the good
- workpiece - the scrap gets the snipe and the good workpiece does not.
-
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