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BillR
 
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Default Screwfix power planer

Huge wrote:
Bought one of these to do some doors. Jeez, that's a scary tool!

- Is it OK to fasten a sock or something over the exhaust to stop it
blowing shavings *all* over the room? (Yes, I know it'll have to be
emptied pretty often).

There's supposed to be a small sock like bag that goes over the exhaust,
this fills pretty quickly though;
or you connect it to your vacuum cleaner.
- How do you stop it making a little step in the end of the piece
when the front foot drops off the end? Like this;

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With lots and lots of practice :-)
Seriously though, you have to anticipate when the plane is getting to the
end and compensate.