Jointer Specification Sheet

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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.

Summary of content (3 pages)

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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.
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The helical cutterhead is so effective because its carbide inserts are arranged in spiral-shaped rows. The inserts have a 4” radius ground into them and are mounted so they approach the wood at a 14-degree angle. That creates a true shear cut that eliminates much of the impact and the resulting fiber disturbance other cutterhead designs deliver to the wood. The helix head (right side of the image) uses full carbide inserts that greatly extend durability as well as the quality of the cut.
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The infeed table height is adjusted using a unique lever system. This single lever provides both coarse and fine adjustment capabilities that make tiny changes simple to make with a new level of accuracy. After loosening the handwheel on the side of the machine, the infeed table adjustment lever can be used for major infeed table height changes. Snug the locking knob down and the same adjustment lever can now be rotated (twist the handle) to make very small infeed table height changes with extreme accuracy.