How to tune up your electric planer for best results!

well a little Sport Dory is complete at this point it's varnished it's painted the interior is oiled it's a hundred percent complete I put one seat in it there's different options about the seats really where you might want to put them so I didn't put any other seats in it at this point I've honest the seat and I it came out of the plane that you can feel the annual rings and it's very rough and I did that on purpose I've honestly just like that without sanding it so that we have a little bit of a non-skid kind of a surface to it so you don't slide on it when you're rolling and you know this so there's a few other things that could be done maybe something to put your feet against but I'm not going to do that right away I'm actually in favor of tying a little line onto the seat riser that you just put around the bottom of your feet and that works fine you know that just works fine so I don't want to have anything in the bottom of the boat like I had said about baling it and different things like that but you know we're just as anxious to see this boat in the water as you are we know you're anxious about it and you know you've caught it comes out in the comments but like I said we're just as anxious as you are but we've got it done and I promise you that our next video after the one that we're going to post this week is going to be rolling this little dory and we're going to row it in some flat water and we're gonna roll it in some lumpy water and you know I'm not concerned about that at all I know how well these boats are how sea where they are and I know that boats gonna roll really nicely it'll be fine you know and it's gonna be fun so we'll all get to see it and it's just gonna be a great time I think it's just going to be a great time so we'll have a drone overhead and some cameras from shore or a boat following us or something along those lines and we're gonna make us good a production out of it as we can make so look forward to that and stay with us the other thing I'd like you to do is check out our patreon page because we do have a patreon page up at this point and we've been getting some some monthly patrons and it's fantastic so that'd be a great way to support us is to check out our patreon page and if you feel so inclined as to help support it any amount is fine with us that's what we're going to do next week this week what we're going to do is we're going to do a little box opening I'm going to show you how I set up my little Roy OB electric plane and I'm going to compare it to a brand new one now Roy OB has sent us this plane uh they sent it to us quite some time ago and they asked us to do a box opening of it because I think they realized that I use a Roy OB planer and I use one for some specific purposes I've used every kind of plane uh and I finally settled on a Roy OB now some people think that it's kind of like a light duty tool and you know maybe they conceived it that way but I don't use it that way I use it in some pretty heavy-duty situations really and I use it in some situations that no other planer that I've been able to buy will perform well so what I'm gonna do is show you all the things that I know about this Roy OB planer and I'm gonna show you what I did to it in order to get it to perform well for me now obviously there's a brand new royal be planer right there and there's a number of different things about it that I'm gonna change one of the first things that I'm gonna do is take this little locking screw out right here that locks the depth gauge no I don't use a depth gauge for anything so I don't need the locking screw and I don't want it to be there so I've gotten rid of that the next thing I'm gonna do is cool they provide this little wrench for you I'm gonna pull it out because I really have no use for that it's made a such soft steel that when you try to tighten the Abba bolts up with it it just bends the wrench so what I've done is I'm just gonna use my own wrench this is just an 8 millimeter open end wrench to replace that so I'm not going to carry this on board that lightens it up a little bit more we'll get rid of that and now I'm going to turn it over and it's got some plastic on the bottom of it here I'm going to get rid of the plastic leave that on there that's just to preserve it I guess you might say and now the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take this what they call a safety feature out of it this is what they call a kickstand actually but I don't like those they just cost me all kinds of problems especially when I'm going backwards they just follow everything up so what I'm going to do is unscrew the base and I'm gonna take that little kickstand right out of that no the only thing that this little kickstand is for is so that when you stop planing and you want to set your plane down it doesn't have the blades touching whatever you set it down on but I'm not going to set it down on a cement block I only set it down on a piece of wood and I let the drum stop rotating before I set it down anyhow so it doesn't it doesn't have any use for me so I'm gonna eliminate that and I'm gonna take these four screws out of the base here just take that out and then put the base right back on again and there it is it dropped right out I didn't you have to remove it no there's your little spring for your kickstand if the kickstand itself and there's the rod did it pivots on right there I don't have any use for any of those so I'm gonna throw those in the box right here let me rotate it around a little bit this way because that way I can put the screws in with my right hand it'd be a lot easier for me so here's the fourth screw right here and I'm gonna tip the planer a little bit that way so they don't fall out and then I'm gonna use my right hand to drive the screws now gotta be careful you don't drive them in there too hard because you could strip them so be careful now that's four screws the basis back on the kickstand is out of there now one other thing that I wanted to show you here was that the blades are wider than the base I'm just gonna put a little reason I played across there to show you that that blade is sticking out past the base like that it's also sticking out past the base on this side same exact thing you know and it's funny every planer on the market the blades are wider than the base I can't quite understand it because when you're using the planer if you tip it a little bit it cuts a mean groove in your work awful so what I have to do is take these blades out and actually shorten them up a little bit I'm not really going to shorten the whole blade what I'm gonna do is grind the very corner of the blade off on aluminum oxide bench grinder to a little bit of a taper on both sides and the other thing I just want to say about these particular blades is they're double-sided so you've got when you wear this side out you just take the blade out and you flip it around and put it back in again you got a brand new blade now this is what I call the infeed table and this is the outfeed table same as a jointer this is really like a little tiny jointer that you would use in a woodworking shop that's basically what it is that's how it was conceived so you know what we've learned on a jointer over the years you can apply to this the first thing I'm going to do is crank up the infeed table so it's adjusted very deep now the way to accept the adjustment on the blades themselves they relate to the outfeed table same as on a jointer I want them so that when I rotate the blade back out of the way like that I'm going to set the rule on there across the outfeed table and I'm gonna rotate it around until that carbide blade touches the rule and then I'm gonna keep rotating and it's supposed to drag the rule about an eighth of an inch well that one dragged about a quarter of an inch so that one's a little bit deep on that side but now I'm gonna check it on this side so I've got the rule back on there again and I'm gonna rotate it around and look at that the blade doesn't touch the rule at all so obviously the blades aren't adjusted properly let's try the next blade I'll keep it on this side that one just touches it but it doesn't drag it so that's adjusted a little light and this side over here that one's adjusted a little heavy so same thing on the two sides so what I'm gonna have to do is readjust the blades before I try the machine so what I'm gonna do now is remove the blades and the pressure bar and I've got an 8 millimeter open end wrench here and I'm gonna loosen the pinch bolts up with that and just line them right up in there as deep as they go into the pressure bar they're not threaded into the aluminum they're threaded into the pressure bar so we're winding them in clockwise into the pressure bar like so and I can feel it kind of bottoming out in there so that's about good enough like that no you see and I try to slide it out it won't slide out the reason for that is because the adjustment screw is sticking down a little bit too much and it's hanging up on the body as a planer right over in here so I'm just gonna back off the adjustment screws and then hold this little doohickey down right here and it slides right out just like that now the next thing to do is to just push the blades out of the pressure bar now you gotta be real careful doing this and I'm a little nervous but I'm okay yes they have a very very very sharp now I'm gonna set that down and do the next one same thing just push it right out of there now I've got the two blades over to my bench grinder now these are carbide blades but you notice that they grind very easily that's because I'm using an aluminum oxide wheel and aluminum oxide cuts carbide very nicely if I didn't have an aluminum oxide wheel I try to cut it on a carborundum wheel I know it wouldn't work out so I'm just taking a very little bit off of each corner I've got eight corners to grind down here you know we've got that task done very very easily and quickly now I'm gonna head back over to my bench and to my plane now the next thing I want to do is just place this blade across the infeed table here and I'm just going to pinch it down with one finger and show you that the cuttin surface of the blade is shorter then the infeed table is white or the outfeed table it has to be that way almost every planer that sold the blades are too wide the boss is too wide this one's too wide every other one's too wide and when you Kip the planer a little tiny bit it cuts this nasty groove in what you're doing no good you can't do it you have to shorten the blades up you can either grind them right off square at the end and shorten them up that way I just taper them off like a little thirty degree angle like that and it works just perfectly fine now I've got one of the blades back in a pressure bar and even though I've cut the blade off on a thirty degree angle in essence I've shortened it up a little bit or the cutting surface of it up a little bit what happens here now is that the pressure bar itself is hanging out into that thirty degree cut I've already experienced putting it back together just like this and what happens is the pressure bar then if you tip the planer a little bit the pressure bar cuts a groove in your work so that's no good either so what I'm going to do is take the whole unit back over to the bench grinder and just drain that little corner off the pressure bar so neither one of those the pressure bar nor the blade can make a digger in my work when I tilt the plane now that I've got my crusher bars back together here with the blades in them and I've done the grinding I'm all set and the next thing I want to do is make sure that the two pressure bars the whole assembly here way exactly the same because they're on opposite sides of the ABBA if one of them weighed a lot more than the other it would make the plane of vibrate like crazy and I've had that experience the last planer that I used I had to balance the two pieces and I use pieces of hacksaw blade behind the pinch bowls you could also grind the pressure bar in between the pinch bolts or do different other things but you've got to get them to weigh exactly the same so what I've done here is I've improvised a little scale here now I've got a gallon can right here and a hacksaw blade and a little piece of wood and I've got two played hanging out past there and whether it's like a spring you see so what I'm gonna do is place the pressure bar on the end of this actual blade like that just like that and then I'm gonna pick up a rule and I'm gonna measure it from the deck to the end of the hacksaw blade and basically what I've got here is eight inches exactly so I'm going to take that one off make sure you don't disturb the blade any because it'll change the mechanical advantage put this on and I'm gonna pick up my rule and I'm gonna measure it now stop the shakin and that one measures eight inches exactly - now if either one of those pressure bars and hole assemblies was any heavier than the other it would wouldn't read the exactly the same I'm going to show you if I put on a small piece of hacksaw blade right on the corner there and pick up my rule again and measure it again that's down to seven and seven eighths so that has affected it by an eighth of an inch that's quite a bit now that I know that the two pressure bar is away exactly same or very very close I'm going to remove that pressure bar from a little scale and we're going to go over and install them back in our machine and I've got to get this little guard out of the way right here before I slide my unit in there and it goes in quite easily actually just like that it is in three pieces because the pressure bar is in two pieces and it kind of falls apart so you have to be pretty careful that the glade is in the slot the way it belongs and I'm just quickly going to tighten up one just to get it to sit still just like that okay Whiteley tighten it up now I'm gonna roll it around and I'll pick up my other unit hater and slip that in place I'm just gonna go in just a little bit push this bolt in a little bit deeper now it goes now there's a little bar or a little plate on the very other end here that you just slide the pressure bar and the blade up against like that so it's in the right position that way now I'm going to tighten up one more of these little bolts like this now the next thing to do here is to adjust the height of the blades and like I told you before that these little allen screws right here what adjusts the height of the blade and these just tighten it up so I'm gonna take my rule and span across the bottom and adjust the height of the blades so here we go I'm going to take my rule and put it across the blade like so and I've got four inches on the edge of my outfeed table just like that now I'm gonna rotate it around and it does not touch the rule now I'm gonna put it on the other side and line it up on a 1/8 inch mark like that and rotate it and I can feel it just touching the rule and it's skids about an eighth of an inch it drags at about an eighth of an inch I'd say that side was just about right so I'm going to tighten this side up a little bit more like so and I'm gonna try this side again put the rule right back on there hold it down nice and tight and rotate it I still don't have it so what I'm gonna do again I'm going to loosen up the center one that I originally tightened and I'm going to tighten this one up a tiny bit and I'm gonna loosen this one up on this side right here now when I turn it with the allen wrench it should go uphill pretty easily you can see that it's in a slot that's tapered here it's got like a it's uh it's kind of tapered like this so as you go uphill it gets tighter and you have to loosen the pinch bolts and tighten the height of pins so we've got it very close at this point and I'm gonna put this back on and rotate it one more time it's still not high enough so I know what to do you just put your allen wrench in crank it up a little bit more now we'll try it again just put it on there just see if we got close oh there you go so now I've made a little bit too much even but don't be surprised if I tighten down this pinch bolt that it'll lower it a little bit the two of them actually like that now I'm going to try it again I'm going to take and put my five inch mark on the edge of the table like so and then I'm gonna rotate it around it grabs the rule drags the rule about an eighth of an inch and stops right there and that's exactly what you want now we're gonna try the other side I'm gonna back it off place the rule on there very carefully five inches on the edge of the table rotate it around it grabs the rule drags it about an eighth of an inch and it stops right there now I fumbled it a little bit so I'm going to try it again I don't mind fumbling once in a while I'll take my rule on there properly it drags it about an eighth of an inch done that one's adjusted properly right there now the thing to do with this is just tighten it up so that's the middle one tight that one's tight and that one's tell you they don't have to be awful tight they the plates cannot come out of there because of this aperture that they're in so that's good enough right like that all right the next thing I'm going to do here is remove this little God that I had to pull up to get the blades and the pressure bars in because it's a safety god of some sort it's designed to keep your fingers I suppose out of your work that sometimes gets in the way and the last thing you'd ever want to do would be reached down and activate it with your finger and get your fingers that close to the blade when you operate in the machine you have no chance of getting your fingers in that blade so it just seems unnecessary to me I've taken it off of my other one and I'm gonna take it off of this simply unscrew that little screw and there's more parts for the bag okay we've got our blades in place and adjusted there is one more thing I'd like to show you about this royo be planer and that is is that the infeed table when you adjust it it rises straight up and down like this it's not on an inclined plane this way here the ones that are on an inclined plane don't work real well for me because when you turn the adjustment knob it turns the table a little tiny bit and when it does that one corner will raise up and the other corner will lower down so in effect it's out of adjustment then you turn it the other way and this corner will lower down and that corner will raise up so no matter which way you turn it it's always out of adjustment I just can't use it that way it doesn't cut the same depth on both sides and it's just not going to work really well especially when you're trying to do something real like finish work with it because you can literally take a plane oh like this this one right here I can literally fare a hole with it right down to almost Sandin but if you have that inclined plane in there you're going to get yourself in trouble on a real flair or fare or a real flat surface so this one like I said it rises up straight up and down and it works great for me now the next thing I want to talk to you about is how this planer ejects right how well it is X now I like it I bought it because it's got this round chute in it right here and you know I know you can put a vacuum cleaner on the chute and all these different things and the other thing it that is about it is it's got this little flapper right here this just designed so that when you flap it one way it's supposed to eject out one side and you flap it the other way it's supposed to eject out the other side well you know for some reason the whole thing doesn't work the flapper flaps great but no air is coming out one side so if I turn it on you get a massive amount of air coming out of this side if it's a you know flip the right way but when you flip it the other way it'll hardly get any air coming out this side so when you try to blow air out this side it'll just jam up right and when you're working on something and there's a lot of work to do you don't want to just keep shutting your machine off and cleaning the throat out or you have to keep it running and have a pencil with you or something and and keep tickling the throat and all these kinds of things no good and every one of the other plane is that I've got I've got a line a boss plane is over there and I've had a bunch of other ones and I just bought a brand new Festool planer which I haven't tested yet or I have tested it but I haven't looked at it carefully this planer right here is the one for me now I've had to make quite a few alterations to the way it ejects in order to get it to work properly but once I got that accomplished it works fantastic so let me give you a little demonstration about the air and the air pressure coming out of the two sides you know if I pick it up and turn it so that the flap is flapped and it's covering this way and pull the trigger pretty good nothing special but pretty good why flap it the other way absolutely nothing nothing coming out of this side so we know that it's just gonna jam itself up right away and that's exactly what it's going to do ultimately what I'm going to do is make that okay like I said quite a few alterations to the throat of it I'm gonna cut the flapper out of it you know and I'm gonna make it so that ejects both ways one of the things that's really important to me when I'm planing overhead whether I'm under a hole and I'm planing scoffs and a plank like this I want to make sure that it's a ejected out that way so it's not blowing in my face I can't have it eject in this way like a Makita planer it just won't work out for me you know then if I turn it around and I'm playing in the other way you know I want it to eject out that way so it has to eject out both sides and it has to eject really really well because I get involved with a lot of wet woods and cutting scoffs in wet wood and basically like on a seat a hall or a Magni Hall I'll cut a scoff even underwater down below the waterline and then what I'll do is I'll heat that up a little bit and dry it before I glue it so you know I'm cutting scoffs you know below the waterline in wood that's wet and the wet wood jams this planer right up so this is the one I've been using this is the one you've seen all along and I've made all the alterations to it that I need to make it works fantastic and I want to show you what I've done to it let's first take a look at the new one now you're looking down the throat and you can see the flapper right here the intended use for that is to direct the chips to go out this direction or out this direction well it doesn't seem to work very well yeah there's not enough air coming out of the machine one side has no way of coming out of it no matter which way you flip it and the other side has a minimal amount of air so something is holding up to air I'm just going to temporarily remove the flapper and the switch so that you can get a good look at the throat this is quite different than any of the other planners it's got two slots in here this is the slot right here that the chips come up when you're doing your cleaning and this is the slot that the air comes up because it's got a fan and the fan is to blow the air out of the throat as well as cool the motor it doesn't work very well as far as blowing the chips out at all it might blow it out one side like I said but it won't blow it out the other side has something wrong with the aerodynamics in there and I'm about to fix it up and I'm about to show you what I did to mine that makes mine work so well like that right okay now on this one here you can see that I've squared out the corners of the hole that the chips fly open by just reaching in there with a chisel and just chewing at the corners of it a little bit and the other thing I've done is the air slot is the same way the air flight had a diagonal kind of a blockage on the end of it right here and one on the end of it on the other end over there so I didn't like that and I squared those out but when I went to run the machine you know it still didn't blow air out one side very well at all so I took a piece of caulking tube or a piece of plastic caulking Cochran's actually and I cut it so that it would fit in there and I reduced the diameter of it it's like a spring and I put it in there so that it wouldn't block where the chips come up right here but it blocks off half of the air slot so the air is forced to come up on that side or that end of the tube now when I put a plug in one side it blows out the other side and if I put the plug in this side it blows out the other side and it blows a tremendous amount of air out it does not jam up any longer you know so it's very easy to use and what I'm gonna do now is give you a little demonstration okay here we go with our brand-new planer now I've got the flapper switch off to port so it should be shooting out to starboard side here and let's give it a try I've got it adjusted so it's almost biting in the eighth of an inch and it's going to be flowing quite a few chips [Music] [Music] well it worked pretty good but let's put the flapper switch over to starboard and the flapper will now be in there so that it's going to shoot out to port now we've got it set pretty deep again and like I said before when I'm playing in wet wood it's a whole different story but this is liable to jam up too let's try it out [Applause] that's it jammed right up look at that it's just full now you've got the flapper in there you can't even move the flapper switch there's no way to tickle it out of there you just can't seem to get it looser but you don't want to keep stopping and doing all this stuff anyhow so you it's just a total inconvenience and if you try to do it while it's running it could be dangerous so you know the thing to do is alter it from here like the one I'm gonna use and show you and the other thing I'd like to say to you is the other one is going to blow the chips twice as far so let's check it out now let's see how my old machine works now I've got it set pretty deep just like I said absolutely no problem at all blowing out the starboard side now let's switch over to the port [Music] [Applause] now that little planer works perfectly really really nice this is really a simulation of cutting scoffs in plankin whether or not you are on the bench doing or under a boat doing or otherwise usually under a boat when you're on a boat the planking is wet and when it's wet it hangs it up way more this one will work really well whether it's wet or not the other one won't work at all so you know you have to make these alterations to it and when you do you have just about one of the most useful tools that I have ever worked with ever I noticed that the guys down in Chile all they used to build their entire boats was a chainsaw an electric plane and a drill that's it nothing else in power tools or anything and they get the job done and they get it done right so you know it's been a great day I remember the first electric plane that I ever saw way back probably in the 50s in the early 50s was a skill 100 with a spiral blade in it and they were pretty dangerous and they didn't work as well as you might think but that's all there was and then there's another planer a little Porter cable I think it is that I've got over there in a box which was the most dangerous power tool that was ever produced and I have it and I'll show it to you but don't ever use one in any situation whatsoever so this is my or EOB power planer the other thing I'd like to show you really quickly on it is this that I took a little piece of sink drain this is like a little drain from a kitchen sink or even a bathroom sink I guess it's the right diameter and it slips right over the ejection tube like that and when I'm cutting angles like this it allows me to be able to maintain the same angle as long as I keep this hand in the right spot trying to maintain that angle with a very small surface is a little shaky with a plane electric plane or a hand plane or otherwise but this thing on there it makes it so that's easier to maintain that angle so you know I've got this on there a lot when I'm doing things when I'm underneath the boat cutting scoffs I can cut in going in that direction I can cut go in the other direction I can cut coming from the grain down I can cut from this end going up it does not fail

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Length: 31min 17sec (1877 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 05 2018