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- From: djt@perkin.caltech.edu (David Thompson)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: thickness planer minimum (thinness planer?)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:24 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- I used to plane wood to 1/8-inch in a Ryobi 10" planer (I don't remember
- the model number) without a carrying board. On good, solid, stable wood like
- hard maple or ebony, no problems, but I had a 1/8-inch thick board of
- bubinga that pretty much exploded in the planer (no injuries). I guess that
- particular board was too brittle to stand up to the vibrations in the planer.
-
- A carrying board seems like a good idea to use on thin boards. A note, though:
- I believe the carrying boards have a step cut in them, to support the back
- end of the thin board as it runs through the planer (ASCII pic follows).
-
- (thin board goes here)----------
- --------------------------------------- |
- <= feed direction | carrying board |
- -------------------------------------------------
-
- Also, I'm not sure I'd want to do this without hot-gluing the thin board
- down, or something like that. No, I haven't actually used this method, just
- my $0.02 worth of observations.
-
- ************** HELP! ******************
- Would someone on rec.ww who works on a VMS machine (if there are any left
- out there, astronomy is a bit behind the times!) please contact me via
- e-mail, I have a couple of newsnet questions I can't seem to figure out.
- Thanks - I'm at djt@deimos.caltech.edu.
-
- Dave.
-