Ridgid Planer Rollers Slipping

I hear this all of the time and even wrote a story on the subject. See the link below. I am willing to bet that if you clean and wax the tables, your planer will magically start working again. It is always possible for there to be a mechanical problem but in the vast majority of cases we have dealt with, wax fixed it. And, its cheap, fast and you don’t have to take anything apart…..

Waxing Planer Tables

-- Tom Hintz, www.newwoodworker.com

I have a ridgid planer – cleaning the rollers with Imperial Cleaner and prepping the table (I use TopCote) has always worked for me.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll try that this weekend.

-- There are three types of people in the world, those who can count and those who can't!

This may be a bad idea but I clean em with Xylene which always works a treat (even with a topcoted table they’ll slip after a while)

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

What Damian said. The Xylene cleans and softens the roller slightly. I use johnson past wax on the table

-- If you have a garden, a shop and a library, you have everything you need with apologies to Marcus Tullius Cicero

Johnson’s Paste Wax works great. It makes a world of difference on how the boards feed through.

-- David, Southern Indiana