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I was playing around in the shop, been thinking about a new motor for the 10er but haven't been able to commit.

Both my mark v's are down with headstock issues so I have a nicer planer collecting dust.

I bought the spt adapter from mkc tools awhile ago and have been using it semi-regularly with my bandsaw. I had an inspiration today and noticed my workmate was close to the right height to put the planer on ...all i needed to use was a 1/2" shim under the planer to get the right height to line it up with the spt adapter on the headstock. I just used a few pony clamps to lock the planer from moving around, set the speed changer to 3, maybe a hair more , and I was planing.

I planed some reclaimed old growth pine from the barn and some newer pine from the scrap pile. Seems like 3/8" of a turn is all I can get out of it at a time on a 9" wide pine board ..which is a bit less than 1/32". I planed a chunk of 3/4" pine down to 1/2" , a bit slow but not too awful bad considering a 1/2 hp motor.

Speed changer did feel a bit warm after the planing...something to watch.

Trying to add photos from the ipad here but not having any luck through the upload attachment box .

Dccarpenter wrote:Trying to add photos from the ipad here but not having any luck through the upload attachment box .

See if this helps with your uploading. I don't know if trying to post from an ipad is any different than from a computer.
https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/comm ... 19246.html
If your picture is too large, there will be an easy to miss error message near the top of the page, which you may have to scroll up to see.