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I did as directed, and got the planer knives out.

One of them popped out and landed at my feet!!

No problems, except I buggered up one of the hex holes in one of the knife setting screws. Not a big deal (I think it's a whole $0.80 at Shopsmith).

Thanks for all of the direction!!!

Ray

I don't have the cutterhead out of the planer, so I'd rather not have to pull it out.

It seams to me that I could take a long "L" shaped allen wrench that fits under the wedge, clamp it to a visegrip, and then hammer "up" on the visegrip to pop out the wedge.

How does this sound to you?

Ray

Hello All,

I recently picked up a Planer Pro for a true song. Its in good shape with some surface rust (not bad at all).

The cutterhead has some rust on it as well. I've been trying to remove the blades, and I can get the wedge fasteners out, and one of the wedges and its knife.

The other two ...