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After having refurbed and played around with 4 Shopsmith planers now. 2 pro and 2 non-pro. One pro in similar situation of not having had the key in place with significant damage to the key way due to overaggressive set screw tightening where the key should have gone. I actually hand milled the key way on the planer blade assembly back into very good shape and it runs nice and smooth.

MC, bypass normal belts and just buy a power V belt. It will run smoother with a power V belt than it even ran when it was brand new with a rubber pulley belt in place.

I would also suggest the use of heavy cast iron pulley V sheaves instead of the shopsmith ones.

If you still go with the shopsmith pulley V sheaves, then I would strongly suggest the use of the power V belt, makes a significant difference in smoothness of operation, definitely a difference in vibration and noise and you don't have belt set issues if you let the planer go dormant for a little while.

People never treat your gear as well as you treat your own gear. I am very, very careful when loaning out my tools to anyone and it is always for very short periods of time and I give them a thorough lesson in operating and maintenance procedures prior to loan out for safety reasons and also so they are less likely to break it in their care.

Cheers,
John

i have a pro planer serial number 001190 and have not used it in several years.... but had it shipped to where we now live from oregon to az. when i tried to run it a few days ago it sounded ok for a while then started making what sounds to me like a loud scraping noise... i think it is coming from the blades contacting the chip deflector. i can't figure out how to get the chip deflector out to see if that is the problem... the movers packed the cord in the feed throat and maybe cranked up the table.
how do i get the chip deflector out to see if that is the problem? the scraping noise slows down as the blades slow down.... any other reason possible for the scraping sound?
Any repair shops in the phoenix area?
thank you, orren b

Unplug it and gently rotate the drive belt to see what is scraping.

Test every screw and setscrew for tightness especially on the belt pulleys, and make sure the woodruff keys are in place.

Once you have isolated it, and remediation is finished, Clean the bed surface, dry it and paste wax it with Johnsons Paste Wax which will reduce the friction of the boards you are planing which WILL make a huge difference on load as it is pushed through.

Adjust your cut depth to the bare minimum material removed to evaluate its performance, increasing slowly based on the hardness of the wood stock you are planing.

There is a manual you can download under the My Google Drive link in the Planer folder at https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 90#p185690.

Also Nick Engler did a Planer Tune Up video you may find helpful. It was made a long time ago and it is grainy as the video resolution back in the day is not a sharp as it is today. See http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/SS_Arch ... Tuneup.htm

Everett

I had the cutter head pulley set screw loosen up one time and the pulley slid out and rubbed on belt guard.