You loosen a pair of nuts and turn bushings that raise or lower the head, then retighten the nuts.
To adjust this style of table or head, disconnect the screws from each other either by loosening setscrews that hold the gears to the screws, or by removing the chain that runs around sprockets under the table. These interconnect with gears or chains so they all turn in unison. Most planers have two or four table- or head-elevation screws that pass. If the table is parallel to the cutterhead, the stock will not jam into the cutterhead or separate from it, showing daylight as you move it. Slide the stock along the table and under the cutterhead to the other end of the cutterhead. Then, adjust the elevation until the cutterhead just touches the stock. To produce stock that is the same thickness across its width, the table and cutterhead must be within.005 of parallel. With some planers, you make the adjustment with shims.Īnd with others you change the rollers elevations with screws, as shown below. If the rollers need adjusting, check your owners manual to learn how to do it. If you work with rough-cut stock, and find that it doesnt feed smoothly, adjust the rollers as high as.010 above the table. Lay a straightedge on the rollers, and use a feeler gauge to check how far they stick above the table. Since your machine may vary somewhat from those shown in our illustrations, you may have to spend time getting familiar with the locations of its adjustment points. Of course, even a pony has to learn its one trick well before you put it through its pacesand the same goes for a planer.
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