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   WillGeorge | Nov 24, 2008 02:51am | #1

   I have a DeWalt 735?.. It will do that on occasion. More likely on the high speed setting. I just help the board along with a slight pull and run it through again at the same setting. My old 13 inch planner did the same thing. And I apply wax to the bottom surface of the planner. Nature of the beast?

   
   

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   Edited 11/23/2008 6:52 pm by WillGeorge

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   flairwoodworks | Nov 24, 2008 06:51am | #2

   Make sure that your stock is long enough.  If it is too short (less than ~13"), it will pass the infeed roller and not reach the outfeed roller.  If the wood is inconsistent in thickness, it could be that the rollers are over a low spot so no contact is made.  With a 4" wide cut, you should be able to take off 1/16", especially in fir.

   Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com

    - Success is not the key to happines.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   forestgirl | Nov 24, 2008 09:51am | #3

   Depending on what you've planed previous to this lot, the rollers may have gotten dirty.  Seems like 95% of the time someone reports a problem with their planer feeding lumber, it's because the rollers are dirtly and/or the tables need waxing.

   Unplug the machine, raise the head, and run your fingers across the feed rollers.  They should feel smooth.  If they're a little rough or inconsistent, get some houshold cleaner (Simple Green, 409) and clean them with a scrubber pad. 

   This is something you'll need to do on a regular basis, whether or not it's causing the current problem.  Clean across the part of the roller that's exposed (pad not too wet), plug machine in and quickly flip the on switch to jog the rollers, unplug it again, then clean the next exposed area. 

   Then wax the beds with Johnson's paste wax or another suitable wax.

   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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   Farkel | Nov 24, 2008 07:59pm | #6

   Thanks for the explanation. The fact I keep the planer in my unheated detached garage (for ease of cleanup), and the temperature dropped well below freezing yesterday probably contributed to the table being sticky as well.

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   forestgirl | Nov 24, 2008 08:13pm | #7

   Brrrr, I don't think we've seen our first 32* night yet.  Glad you found the problem!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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   Rich14 | Nov 24, 2008 04:54pm | #4

   Farkel

   As has been mentioned, keep the feed rollers clean. Waxing the bed helps. But wood often "sticks" to the shiny chromium-plated beds of these small machines.

   I had a Ryobi 13" which worked beautifully, but had the same problem once in a while. I once had need to mill some stock thinner than the minimum setting on that machine. I "raised" the bed by putting a length of MDF on it. The MDF was long enough to extend as long as the stamped metal infeed and outfeed tables also.

   I left it in place for a while after that and found that it improved the machine greatly. Stock slid on the MDF MUCH better than it did on the bare bed (even waxed). A little saw dust actually made it more slippery than if clean. And snipe became much less of a factor, I guess because the stock was supported a little better.

   Rich

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   ChristopherL | Nov 24, 2008 07:48pm | #5

   Hey-

   I've also found that in an effort to reduce snipe on my Delta I've sometimes raised the outfeed table just a bit too high, and the rolllers fight to get the piece out of the machine.  When I reduced the height/angle of the outfeed table to dead level the problem went away.

   Chris

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   ekgolf | Nov 25, 2008 09:43am | #8

   Sometimes when running boards with knots through a planer, the knot can actually cause a blemish on the planer bed. Check the bed to see if there are any burrs or bumps. If there are, just use a mircopad to flush them out with the bed, and you're good to go.

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   jayrw | Sep 16, 2021 11:31am | #9

   I am planing old treated pine fence pickets to reuse. My bench planer keeps stopping and throwing the surge protector. I just changed blades, but it didn't fix the problem. Anybody have any ideas?

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   pantalones868 | Sep 16, 2021 08:46pm | #10

   Too deep a cut or boards are not consistent in thickness and it jambs. Your planer knives are dull and the machine is straining or you installed them upside down( backwards, it happens). You are on a receptacle with not enough amperage. Your dust port is jambed up and it's bogging on it own chips. You have a short somewhere or bad ground and I think you meant to say GFCI and it's doing what it was designed for. If not why are you on a surge suppressor? GFCI s go bad sometimes.

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   [email protected] | Sep 17, 2021 09:42am | #11

   Mine was out in an unheated building and when extremely cold the rubber on the rollers got so stiff it couldn't grip the boards. It was not good.

10. 
    _mj_ | Sep 17, 2021 03:56pm | #12

    Have you tried to take a light cut from something like a plain pine board to see if it is the stock?