On Dec 19, 2:30*pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:16:23 -0800 (PST), RonB
wrote:


As I posted here a while back, we are in late stages of finishing our
own house. *She watched me struggle with keeping an old Ryobi surface
planer going during the process. *The Ryobi is a good machine but it
was worn from 12-14 years of use, and wasn't up to some of the big
pieces of 8/4 stock. *Busted the gearbox, glued it back with JB, then
had more problems.

It sounds like you were either trying to take too much off in one cut
or you weren't supporting it from the ends when it was being fed
through. *Shameful! *(Learned your lesson yet?)

Might be right to a certain degree, but the machine was showing lots
of wear. When I think about it, the 12-14 years is probably
conservative since this is the third home it lived in. My wife bought
it as a Christmas Gift when Builders Square, Wichita was still in
business. That goes back to early-mid 90's. (Damn time flies).

It has had thousands of feet of hardwood and many hundreds of feet of
8x4 Oak run through it. With the big stuff, I usually hand fed and
let roller stands help with out-feed. Some of it was 6-10 feet long.
But the little suitcase planer weighs about 60-70 pounds and the
tables were only about 10" on either side. It probably doesn't take
much "wiggle" with a 50-60 pound piece of hardwood to put stress on a
light aluminum motor mount/gearbox casting; not to mention everything
else. Never had much trouble with feed - it would accept the bigger
stuff with self-destructive determination.

I fixed it twice. once with a very neat application of JB weld applied
right at the break and that lasted a month or two. The second time I
applied JB like peanut butter across the entire lower gearbox area, at
least 1/2" beyond the fracture. In the process I also disassembled
it, replaced the sprockets and switch; and gave it a thorough cleaning
and lubrication. It is sitting in our son's garage now and I suspect
it will provide him a few years of use since he doesn't have time to
abuse it like dad did.

Dad's retired now. The Grizzly G0453P should be good for quite a few
more projects, including the rocking horses made mostly from 8/4
stock.

And my wife MADE ME BUY IT!

RonB