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thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:05 am
by scorelesssteve
hi i just got a shop smith set i came with a thickness planner the motor that hangs off the side is gone can i just feed wood thru by hand it a 500 motor seems like alot thanks

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:13 am
by rjent
There is a thread about converting to a hand crank. Mine is manual and I like it. It allows you to control the feed rate which I like. I will see if I can find the thread .....

Found it .... http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/maint ... 16009.html :D

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:14 am
by JPG
scorelesssteve wrote:hi i just got a shop smith set i came with a thickness planner the motor that hangs off the side is gone can i just feed wood thru by hand it a 500 motor seems like alot thanks
I think we need a pix to better answer.

That motor 'on the side' would be a feed motor, not the cutter motor.

Actually the 500 1 1/8hp motor is under powered for the 12" planer.

You may have the model that was hand fed by a crank where the feed motor mounts.

One side will have the drive shaft for the cutter, and the opposite side will have a cover that holds either the motor or the hand crank. A pix of that cover would be helpful.

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:38 am
by scorelesssteve
its the feed motor i believe

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:45 pm
by scorelesssteve
i cannot upload a pic from my iphone to the post

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:47 pm
by scorelesssteve
this is what type i have the motor on the side is missing

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:48 pm
by scorelesssteve
and that box also

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:25 pm
by Bruce
scorelesssteve wrote:i cannot upload a pic from my iphone to the post
You can upload a pic from your iPhone, but you may need to crop the photo to make it small enough to upload.

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:33 am
by JPG
scorelesssteve wrote:and that box also
Describe the cover on to which the motor would mount. Tell us the hole(s) pattern. One hole or 5(excluding the cover mounting holes).

Re: thickness planner

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:08 pm
by scorelesssteve
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