Problem with Planer

I’m a little hung up on your sentence, “The last board I planed had absolutely no metal in it.” Did previous boards has some metal in them? Was the planer “spitting out 1/4” size semi circle metal pieces” when you ran the last board through it?

Was the thickness of these “1/4” size semi circle metal pieces” roughly equal to the thickness that you were cutting off the wood?

As my questions imply, my first guess is that you ran some wood through the planner that had some metal in it. Of course, I don’t know that for a fact. That’s just my guess as to the most likely source of the problem.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

sorry about that statement….I have never ran metal through it. It was just to clarify that the metal did not come from the wood itself.

-- Mike, Portage, WI

when the metal fell out of it….it was not touching a board at all. I had turned it on to start to put a board in, and that is when the noise started and I noticed 1-2 metal pieces.

-- Mike, Portage, WI

You sure there wasn’t some metal that got into it accidently before you started planing? What did the boards look like? Were they planed okay?

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fresh cut at a saw mill….messing with it now…trying to look at the gears to see of something jammed it up.

-- Mike, Portage, WI

All I can say is this sounds serious. A planer should not spit out metal pieces. I would not run the planer again until you know what the problem is and you are certain that it is properly fixed.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

found the problem…the side of the bearing track(on the blade shaft)broke off exposing the ball bearings and the feet that hold them in. That is what was spitting out.

-- Mike, Portage, WI

Man, that can’t be good! Is it repairable?

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