<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Electric Planer Blade Alignment</title></head><body> <div>At 7:01 AM -0400 2/10/03, Farrell wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I have a DeWald 12-1/2-inch electric planer. I'm having trouble getting perfect (or nearly enough) blade alignment. The machine comes with these two little plastic/magnetic jiggydoos that are supposed to allow for proper alignment - and they come pretty close if you are real careful with them. But even after doing the best job I can with these, one side of the blades will cut a tiny bit off a board when the other side doesn't touch the board. Anyone found a jig/method that provides better alignment?</font></blockquote> <div><br> Hi Terry,</div> <div><br></div> <div>I used to have similar problems getting the blades set accurately until I conjured up a method of setting them using two dial gauge/magnetic base sets. I have an Italian Li Atigiana (sp?) 16" 5hp machine which is a very nice unit, but the blade setup jig which came with planer is next door to useless.</div> <div><br></div> <div>If the dial gauges are first positioned (with their plungers oriented vertically downwards) so that they read zero with bases attached to a flat surface (the tailing out table of your planer is ideal), they can then be carefully placed such that their respective plungers are positioned directly over the axis of the planer spindle (one over each end of the spindle).</div> <div><br></div> <div>If the blades are set at the correct height, as each comes into contact with the two plungers, the dial indicators will simultaneously rise to zero before falling away again as the blade passes by. Note that it is important that the dial gauges be set so that their plungers can extend only a couple of thou' further than the zero point when first set up on the flat surface. This is important to ensure that the blades can come into contact with the plunger on each dial without moving the dial  indicator/base from its position over the spindle.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I hope this is helpful. The concept is difficult to explain without using an image.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY</b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><i>   </i></font><font color="#0000FF"><i>Grand Piano Manufacturers</i></font><font color="#000000"><br> _______________________</font></div> <div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br> </font><font color="#000000">Web http://overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">mailto:info@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>