On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 09:38:03 +0000 (UTC), Harold Davis
wrote:

Huge wrote in
:

On 2015-06-08, Harold Davis
wrote:
Andrew wrote in
:

On 02/06/2015 21:06, Harold Davis wrote:
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!

Take the door off and clamp vertically, short side upright, long
side horizontal into a workmate or similar. Place large enough block
of wood or breeze block under the other end, which you want to
plane. Easy.

Have you ever done that, Andrew? My electric plane is very heavy and
vibrates a *lot*. I don't think that would be feasible, except maybe
if you are Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's how I've done it, and although I'm 6'3" and 17st, I fly a desk
for a living, so Arnie I'm not.

Sorry, Huge; I replied to your other post before I saw this one.

I'll get a workmate (the non-human kind) and try what you say.

Harry

Providing your legs are long enough you can stand astride it and grip
with your knees. Always worked for me.