Reinvent jointer planer in

Our portal has already said, What tools are needed for the manufacture of furniture or wood processing. By all accounts, one of the indispensable assistant for quality "woodwork" is the jointer - a tool with which you can set the procurement of wood flat surface, the so-called "Base".

Jointer - the right tool, but many beginning artists discourages its price. Members FORUMHOUSE believe that there are no hopeless situations. One of the options - budget remake of "unnecessary" in a compact home planer jointer. The experience of the participant portal from Moscow with the nickname Victor-, has decided to implement its long-held idea into reality and make jointer.

How to make a jointer

Victor-user FORUMHOUSE

I have a plane to the working width of the treated wood of 102 mm. The model has a smooth engine start-up and support for constant speed under load. Another plus - knives, which, unlike other manufacturers, are made not in the form of large and heavy blades, but as a rather narrow strip of cartridges.

Such knives are quickly and easily installed and verified in the horizontal direction. And that is especially important for Victor- (Because fuganovalny machine he needed for carpentry, joinery and not) in the case of contact with the knife nail relatively low cost of consumables strongly do not hit the family budget. Although under the - "102-th" Planer not issued a special platform, through which it can quickly turn into a jointer, in front of the tool has a threaded hole for the desired device.

Jointer machine with their own hands

Having defined the "donor", the user has started its alteration. To do this in warranty where repair tools Victor- has acquired a metal support surface with a flag-resistant to the older - "110th" planer model. It was possible to get hold of a set of four bolts with square at the top.

Such attachment sits firmly in the seat, and he was not provernot vibration during operation of the jointer.

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Making the fitting, I found out that the 2 front feet are almost identical seats in planes, but the hole under the rear support and geometry need to be improved. We'll have to make a square hole, and the truncation of the upper part of the support that they do not head rested in expanding the handle of the planer.

In addition, we had to abandon the rotary flag - the protective shield of the sole planer, where the blade shaft, as he just did not coincide with the platform "102 th" donor model.

The first thing that the user has changed the design - cut the check box, and then mapped out the location of the rear legs on the steel platform. To this end (as expanding to abut the support handle devices) had little to cut the upper portion of the holder by means of grinders.

The resulting "rough" part bring to mind a file, giving them a slight curve, you need to fix the planer. To pinpoint the site of attachment at the rear feet, planer-jointer had to collect, consolidate the front feet and put back.

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When fitting it is important to monitor how the bolt, which squeezes the handle of the planer brackets is required for this gap in the doorway.

At the user's words, make a mark on the metal most convenient markers used for writing to CD. Marker choose a thin pen. Another technically simple, but time consuming task turned out to be the production of square holes. They do so, first in the area drilled holes in the usual drill, and then "square" is achieved by Needle.

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For the convenience of Needle is better to take with plastic handles.

The next stage - to determine where and how it will be fixed jointer. After all, the tool should be firmly attached to the base. One of the options - "prishurupit" metal stand to the workbench or fix it on the screws (for that four holes are provided in the base).

Or if you do not want to spoil your desktop / workbench, adapting it under the table jointerIt is possible to go on the road Victor- and make a wooden stand that is attached to the clamps desktop.

At the end of the work clamps are removed and cleaned on a jointer storage. Homemade jointer - machines can save space in your home studio!

The user in the household has previously acquired a folding table under the surface gauge. It was his and he decided to use as a frame for the installation of the jointer. It only remained to make a wooden stand. But the matter is complicated by the fact that the handle of the planer was below the plane of the metal pad. Those. We need to make a corresponding indentation in the wood.

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To make a wooden stand, I took a board thickness of 4 cm. Ostrozhil her plane and chose a chisel deepening under the handle of the planer.

At this stage - the finish line, do not forget to try and blank parts to each other. It is better to check everything several times, than to wrestle with how to correct the mistake.

The wooden stand pen drill diameter equal to the diameter washers bolts do recesses 4 in the places where similar openings provided in the metal pad. Then, in the middle drill holes through them both sites are tightened together by bolts.

Another point on which to focus - a decrease in area weight, nevliyayuschee on its strength characteristics. To do this, the user has marked a wooden stand and drank all the "extra" jigsaws, then brought to the surface finishing state have already become an indispensable file.

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After this operation, it began to resemble a playground aviation rib, but at this stage I missed one very important point.

according to Victor-, Some people before you do something, study materials, watch videos, developing a detailed drawing. Someone acts contrary - on a whim, without drawing, keeping the general details of the project in mind. Such an approach does not allow to estimate in advance, where the project "narrow" place.

In our case, only make a wooden stand, the user reflected, and where to place it on the push button, which places under just left. Turn on and off the tool by pulling out the plug, did not want to.

As a result, the area under the switch fabricated from a piece of plywood, drilling a hole in it at the conclusion of the phase wires. Then secure platform with a switch on a wooden stand. Also changed the electrical diagram tool that allowed include jointer the touch of a button switch.

An important point: rocker switch is set much lower than the knife drum and the shaft for jointer and behind it. Those. accidentally switch the machine difficult as planer (to duplicate the inclusion of so-called system of "two keys") is powered by a simple household extension cord.

The result of all these great works, homemade jointer, clearly seen in the following photo.

According to joinery craftsmen, the resulting instrument should be called mini-planing machine, because from jointer to be the sole long. The user was satisfied with the alteration. It remains only to add special pushers through which safer to work with the tool.
If you have decided to make their own hands jointer - drawing for the production of pushers will facilitate your task.

Also on the advice of the users of our portal, all those who are thinking to repeat this alteration, or those who makes home-made machines, for additional security jointer should be slightly finalized. Instead, key switch (which can still be accidentally turn and stay without fingers) more properly be or put the switch to "drown" push button in the box, with wall height a bit higher than the switch.

Following the link, you can read a detailed description of all the work on alteration in the planer jointer. Also on FORUMHOUSE have a theme, which shows how to modify or restore the old manual tools.

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