Setting straight knives on a Jointer/Planer combination.
Hi everyone
Recently I became a proud owner of a Record Power Pt107, a combination jointer/planer. When I bought it second hand. The knives where removed. Now I want to place the knives back in the cutter head, but seeing I don’t have the original knives as a reference for my handy record power planter knives jig, I am in a little bit of a struggle to set the knives. There is a lot of information about setting jointer knives, but seeing this is a combination machine, I was wondering if I set the knives based on the jointer, it would influence the depth of cut of the planer. Seeing they both use the same cutter head. How can I manually set the blades, while insuring I get precise results with both the jointer as the planer. Anyone got some tips for me?
Thanks!
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Figures 5,5 and 6,4. https://torsvangmaskin.no/file/andre/bruksanvisning-pt107.pdf
Not familiar with that machine, but my favorite tool for setting blades is dial indicator attached to a magnetic base. While this level of precision isn't required. It just easy to know exactly where you blades are in relation to the table. Great for troubleshooting problems too.
I hve tried different ways but I keep coming back to this. It is about the only place I use an indicator. Don't use it to set up my table saw, just not needed.