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Same here. This is one of the sites I check every day when I start my work computer. Great that it's back, and thanks Scott for the YT notification. I saw it within 15 minutes of you posting it but the forum was swamped and I couldn't get logged in.

I'm very hopeful to see what's planned in the ...

Have you tried unlocking the carriage and headstock at the same time to see if the headstock still won't move freely? Might be worth a shot.


No, I haven't tried that yet, but that's a very good idea to look out for. For now, the mark is pushed out of the way. This week is VBS and then I won't ...

Thank you for the detailed response. I had not realized that there was a change in the tubes at all, so I'll go check that.

I have rotated the tubes, trying to find the sweet spot. I thought the theory in this was more that the tubes may be straight, but somewhat out of round and you were trying to ...

How do I go about getting my headstock to slide easier along the way tubes? I've tried both waxing and rotating the tubes, but I don't see much of any improvement with it. I'll get it to the point where it will slide pretty easily through some of the distance, but then it will hit a section with ...

No, it's not stopped. It's more that the speed was decreasing enough that the board wasn't really feeding itself through the planer. Still happened some after waxing.

For knife sharpening, while I don't have the SS sharpening jig, I do have a slow speed wet grinder setup with a guide clamp for long ...

As far as thickness goes, I always start where the board can't touch at all, and slowly through successive passes at a decreasing thickness of 1/16" on each pass, keep running the board through until it starts making contact. Then, based upon how the planer responds, I'll run a different thickness ...

I was planing again last night and realized I misquoted the amount I was taking off in each pass. I was doing 1/4 turns of the handle, which the chart says is 1/64" on each pass.

I finally found a way to bog down the powerpro, pretty heavily in fact. I picked up some very twisted and bowed ~2.25"x14-18"x8' live edge rough-sawn oak slabs that someone was throwing out. Looked like they got a pallet of them in for a remodel and left them in the rain. I cut a piece down to 12 ...

When I bought my mark mounted planer in early 2020, the manuals that came with it referred to both the mark mounted and the pro planer. I believe the owners manual itself was labeled as the pro planer. This being the case, I can see the easy confusion on the seller's end.

For mine, I have run it on ...

JPG wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:58 pm Where is Kileen/Temple?

This was actually one of the first times in this thread that I haven't had to look up where somewhere is (except for major cities).