I've just bought an ELU 1901 planer/thicknesser. Unfortunately the
seller decided to remove the tables for carriage - and then decided to
deliver himself and put them back on ! They are now some 1mm out of
parallel across the machine. I think I can work out how to correct this
but has anyone done it before ?

Rob

I thought that was the idea--one plate has to be out of alignment to
give the depth of cut you want.

In article .com,
"Jim" says...
I thought that was the idea--one plate has to be out of alignment to
give the depth of cut you want.


He said out of parallel, so the alignment varies from one side of the
table to the other.

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I've just bought an ELU 1901 planer/thicknesser. Unfortunately the
seller decided to remove the tables for carriage - and then decided to
deliver himself and put them back on ! They are now some 1mm out of
parallel across the machine. I think I can work out how to correct this
but has anyone done it before ?

Rob


Not an easy job. I assume the cutter bearing mounts have not been disturbed?
so it will work as a thicknesser OK. If not do this first.
Then get the outfeed table parallel with the cutter using a clock/dti gauge.
last of all set the infeed table parallel with the outfeed table.
Reset the knives in the cutter block so that turning the block by hand with
a piece of wood resting on the outfeed table and overhanging the gap between
the table, the wood is advanced by 1-2mm as each blade passes under the
overhang.
Best way I know to check final alignment is to plane two board edges asif
you were going to edge join them and see if it planing convex or concave.

Set aside an afternoon and use plenty of patience. Stop every half hour and
curse the dickhead who took the tables off in the first place.

I do have an article somewhere on how to do this on a Kity P/T
If you want this, send me an email with your snailaddy to
bobdotminchinatntlworlddotcom

Good luck

Bob

On 3 Jul 2005 06:22:47 -0700, wrote:

I've just bought an ELU 1901 planer/thicknesser. Unfortunately the
seller decided to remove the tables for carriage - and then decided to
deliver himself and put them back on ! They are now some 1mm out of
parallel across the machine. I think I can work out how to correct this
but has anyone done it before ?

Rob

Yup, Been there, done that got the tee shirt, and it was an ELU 1901.....

Tools neede:

Patience
A good quality steel metre straight edge
Patience
Oh and lots of Patience


I reckon it took me the best part of half a day to do it, Largely by trial
and error.


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