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I wanted to extend the table on my planer to help tone down some snipe. I don’t have room for a large dedicated table – I normally store the planer and pull it out as needed. So I took a 6 foot piece of 12” shelving and added a cleat to keep it from being pulled through the planer, and use this as my table. The shelf goes on the wall when not needed, taking up almost no floor space in the shop, and has worked great for me. Dusty – this is the one I was talking about.
-- Chris
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lew
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posted 217 days ago
Cool Idea!!
This also helps if you want to “cheat” the minimum thickness the planer can handle.
SawdustWrangler
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posted 217 days ago
Great idea! I have the same planer I think.
-- Chris, South Carolina
Wingstress
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posted 217 days ago
Nice, I’ve never tried an extra long table. Does it make a noticeable difference with the snipe? If so, then that is an easy solution…
-- Tom, Simsbury, CT
Chris
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posted 217 days ago
It did for me. If you can adjust the tables on the planer itself you might not need it. I still get a little bit but try to minimize it by running the parts through so that they don’t have gaps between them – that way those ends are always supported.
-- Chris
OutPutter
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posted 217 days ago
Great idea Chris. How do you keep the pieces from tracking off the side? You know, that little piece of metal that sticks up along the sides of the planer table? Is it a problem not having that on the shelving?
-- Jim
Chris
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posted 217 days ago
The feed rollers don’t seem to want to push the parts off line. I haven’t had an issue, but I haven’t tried to run anything over 10 inches wide or so through it either. Absolutely no problem with narrower stock.
-- Chris
jockmike2
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posted 217 days ago
Looks like a good solution.
-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com
Derek Lyons
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posted 216 days ago
Nice trick, I love the cleat.
-- Derek, Bremerton WA --
a1Jim
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posted 216 days ago
That’s just plane good
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
Dusty56
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posted 216 days ago
Thanks Chris…it’s perfect ! I’m off to my local lumberyard to see if they have a damaged piece of that Melamine for sale cheap : ) I tried adjusting my tables several times with no luck getting rid of the snipe totally, but it’s nowhere near as much as my buddies’ Delta snipes his lumber !
-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .
pauldeo
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posted 215 days ago
I have the same Dewalt planer. I am going to give this a try. I seem to have a lot of infeed snipe on small or light weight pieces. Might that be an infeed roller issue? Or is this normal on these planers? Is this a common planer problem for any size or grade of planer?