On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:38:03 +0000, Harold Davis wrote:

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




harry you can buy a circular saw on screwfix for less than half the
price of a workmate
it is much much easier to trim door bottoms with a skilsaw than with
a plane.clamp or screw or pin a straightedge and run the saw across..the
cut will be straight and square

btw if your planer runs as rough as you make out,sling it or get it
repaired


steve