Operating instructions

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Operating Instructions (Overhand Planing)
11. Select an ‘edge’. (The second planing operation). Ensure that, if possible, you are not planing
against the grain, and that if the stuff is bent, that the back of the bow is uppermost.
12. If necessary, alter the infeed table setting as required for planing the edge.
13. Set the fence, leaving sufficient exposed width of planer blades for you to machine the edge
dimension of the workpiece. Check the fence is ‘right’ (i.e. At right angles to the table).
14. Lower the upper guard to cover the planer blades and leave a gap approximately the size of
the material between the fence and the edge of the guard. Lower the workpiece onto the tables,
push up against the fence and adjust the upper guard so that its edge is just ‘sprung’ against the
timber. Remove the timber.
15. Press the start button, allow the machine to run up to speed. Put the workpiece onto the
infeed table and advance over the cutter block, maintain constant downward pressure and side
pressure against the fence whilst feeding. The upper guard should be ‘nudged’ out of the way
as you advance the wood over the cutter block and provide a little side pressure to help the
operation. Make as many passes as required to render the wood flat, straight and right. Press
the stop button and let the machine run to a stop.
16. Mark the ‘face’ and the ‘face edge’ for later reference. Put the timber aside, set the machine
for thicknessing.