I’ve been given a old high school wood project that was going to be scrapped. I’m always up for repurposed use of wood as the price is right.
Big 5 drawer chest of drawers. Red oak and poplar sides.
Anyway drawer fronts were glued and screwed to the red oak.
I separated but have dried yellow glue on the oak.
I will hand scrape but can I pass through planer with hss blades?
Dewalt DW-735
thanks
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If there are clumps or beads of dried glue, I would hog most of it off with a carbide paint scraper first. Then you can run it through the planer.
I think that if you hand scrape the globs and chunks off first, you should have no issues. However, before running any reclaimed lumber through my planer, I always satisfy myself that the value of doing so is worth the cost of resharpening or replacing blades if needed.
There is no need to scrape it will not harm your blades. Only if it was plastic resin glue would it be required to scrape it off.
Sorry what’s plastic resin glue? This is I’m guessing just yellow glue.
Thanks for yours and the other comments.
No it is not. It is a urea formaldehyde wood glue. It is a powdered glue that is mixed with water. It is very hard when dried and will nick high speed steel knives, so when used, it is important to scrape off the excess. It has many positive qualities when compared with an aliphatic resin glue (yellow glue). An aliphatic resin glue (yellow glue), however, is not abrasive and will not damage high speed steel, so there is no need to scrape it off prior to planing. Hope this helps.
Rob
I have a similar planer. I use the carbide scraper and have never had problems.
I have not dared risk the chunks as sharpening the blades is a pain. It only takes a few seconds to get them off.
I’ve run boards with dry beaded yellow glue through my planer and never saw any nicks.
People say it but I don’t believe it.
Yellow glue doesn’t dry THAT hard.
That said, I don’t know what would happen with a small planer and thin knives.
Yellow or Titebond type glues will not nick blades.
Thanks to all the helpful responses! And I learned about plastic resin glue.
Idid try a very sharp bench plane as an experiment.. sliced through the dry glue and the edge held sharp.
Anyway thanks
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