I have been working with cypress and have a problem with planing. I have sharp blades and a strong vacuum but the chips (acually more like paper confetti) continually binds up my 4″ duct exiting from the planner as well as the entrance to the vacuum. There is one center strut at each point but I don’t see why that should be a factor. The cypress comes off in about 2 and 3 inches lengths and wraps around the strut until it clogs my exhaust. Am I using the wrong cypress? Can someone help? I want to make adirondack chairs
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Sounds like too heavy a cut. Alternative would be to set up outside, unhook the hose and let the chips fly.
Sounds like too heavy a cut.. I'd agree and if you have a shop vac 'blow' all the chips out on each pass.. Pain.. But those old chips sometimes mess up things!
Check the moisture content of the cypress. If it is very high it tends to stick to anything.
DR
Are you using Alaskan cypress, yellow cedar? I love that stuff but it is like white pine and the shavings will wrap around any obstruction and clog things up. I cut off the grills on my dust collector, problem solved. I just make sure I don't suck up any hunks through my impeller. Shouldn't be an issue with a vacuum.
Hammer,
I also cut off those grills on the pissant dust spreader-best thing I ever did for it.It couldn't even handle hardwood chippings from my surfacer, and hand plane shavings were the kiss of death. Mine is a frizzily-like item of 21/2 horse.Philip Marcou
The grills are installed as a safety device so that the weak minded won't put their hand through the ductwork and contact the spinning cutterhead or the impeller. I'm sure they were insisted on by the lawyers and insurance companies. Cutting them out will probably solve you problem without creating too horrible a risk to life and limb.
John W.
I think they were mandated because a child stuck a hand in something.. I think it was a shop vacuume cleaner.. SO everybody had to do it..At least what I remember about it...
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