I have had mine around 8 months now and it has changed my life in the shop, i no longer have to buy dressed timber at rediculous prices, the blades were dulling after some heavy work with Oak boards so i changed them out, pretty straight forward and i checked the cuts and all seems to be fine. Snipe is a big subject and although i do get some and sometimes pretty bad its all down to how much of a bite you take. I have found if i go easy on the cut it vitually goes away i reduce the cut to just a skim as i get close to required depth and alwats use a digital caliper to get it accurate. Has anyone else got any good tips on using the equipment. can you re sharpen the blades etc and what is best way to reduce snipe.
thanks, george spain
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FlWoodRat
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posted 411 days ago
I had no idea it was Snipe hunting season already.
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Mark Shymanski
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posted 411 days ago
I also have a 733. Are you closing the ‘anti-snipe’ bar (or whatever Dewalt calls it) at the top of the machine after adjusting your depth of cut? I get virtually no snipe on mine unless the boards are overly long and thus unsupported going in or out.
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jaxx
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posted 411 days ago
i clamp the lock bar down when i get close to the required thickness, are you say you should clamp the bar every pass ??
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jaxx
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posted 411 days ago
i have also made a 6ft out feed table same with as the DW table , this helps however i still get snipe sometimes. i guess its my set up. maybe i should build an infeed table
Greg Wurst
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posted 411 days ago
I have a 733. The blades are sharpenable unlike the ones on the newer 734 and 735 which are reversible but not sharpenable. I hardly ever get snipe unless I don’t support the piece properly.
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jaxx
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posted 411 days ago
thanks for the info, i will run some test pieces in the morning with due care on the support and see if i can work this out. Do you have any extra support at the infeed side ?
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3fingerpat
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posted 411 days ago
I also have the 733 and proper support and angling the board thru the cut will reduce snipe.
FYI, I just had to replace on the of the feed rollers, spacer block and drive grear, the drive gear was stuck on the roller shaft and wouldn’t come off so I had to replace the gear and spacer block. There are no dwgs or procedures that tell you how to do this and the local DeWalt repair shop wasn’t much help. The parts cost about $45, so not too bad and now the planer works much better.
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