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   JohnWW | May 23, 2007 09:38pm | #1

   This was discussed just a few days ago, go here:http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=36018.1

   John W.

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   spitfire | May 23, 2007 10:07pm | #2

   thank you John, I missed this for some reason!!!

    

    

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   forestgirl | May 24, 2007 02:29am | #3

   "It seems a quantity of wood clippings are adhering to the rollers or something."  That particuclar sentence caught my attention.  Are they adhering, or aren't they?  When chips stick to the rollers, you usually see divots in the wood, and you can certainly feel the chips stuck to the rollers.

   Are you using dust collection on this machine??

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   spitfire | May 24, 2007 06:51pm | #4

   Yes, clippings were "sticking" to the rollers!  I cleaned them off last night as you suggest.  I use a shop vac and it simpyl cannot move enough air to get rid off all the shavings generated from the planing operation.  I need ot get one.

    

   thank you Forestgirl 

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   forestgirl | May 24, 2007 07:47pm | #5

   Oh, my.  You're right, a shop vac won't do the job on a planer.  Before I got a dust collection, I just had my Delta 12.5" open to dump on the floor.  Have you tried removing the dust hood and letting it dump?

   Time to get a DC!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   spitfire | May 25, 2007 08:46pm | #7

   yes, I did try letting it all go to the floor at one time, I will try that again!!

    

    

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   forestgirl | May 26, 2007 01:55am | #8

   "I will try that again!!"  Please wear a dust mask -- I don't need any more to feel guilty about <grin>forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   observer | May 25, 2007 08:33am | #6

   The speed selector is actually a switch-mounted gear and shaft mounted rack that shifts the keyed shaft between engaging one or the other of two sets of gears that drive the feed rollers at different speeds, a sort of mini transmission. The "dead zone" is the spot where neither set of gears is engaged by the short key on the shaft.

   Out of the box, my planer had a similar problem to yours and also was hard shifting between speeds. I pulled the transmission and disassembled it to see if I could figure out the problem. Found nothing wrong and when reassembling got a slightly different engagement of the rack and the gear on the selector switch. Since then it shifts like a knife going through warm butter and no more stalled feed.

   You should be able to shift back into the gear engagement your planer jumps out of when it does so. If not, you may find a similar adjustment works for you. It does require pulling the transmission to disengage the rack from the gear; remove the selector switch handle as well. Be careful when pulling the transmission. Two of it's bolts hold the cover in place, two hold the transmission in place, and the two shortest hold the transmission together. Remove all but the last two; learned that by experience ;o).