"Phil L" wrote in
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Thanks for this, Phil.

"Harold Davis" wrote in
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Hi,

I need to plane the bottom of an internal door and have done this
with other doors using an electrical plane. But when I did it before,
I had someone to help me by holding the door upright so I could stand
on some steps and run the plane along the top. Now she won't be there
to help and I'm going to have to do it on my own.

What's the best way to hold the door tight? I'm sure I've seen
tradesmen use electrical planes on doors without assistants, but I
can't remember exactly how they've done it! There's no way I can
stand it on the floor and
plane the top as before - it wouldn't stay still.

Thanks in advance!

Laying it flat on a table and holding the plane at 90 degrees seems to
be the way everyone else in the world does it,

Is that so? :-) I'll be OK if I clamp it to the table, then.

The reason I did it the other way before is to make gravity my friend,
pulling the plane down evenly onto the surface being planed. It's quite a
heavy plane and we did several doors - about a dozen including cupboard
doors - and the amount of vibration was close to the maximum I would want
to withstand.

Thanks again!

I've never seen anyone
use a stepladder to plane a door before.

Harry