A neighbor of mine has a ~12″ Dewalt planer that’s about three years old.
Apparently, he’s getting some intermittent snipe problems. The odd thing is the location of the snipe — it’s NOT at the beginning or end of the board, but just some random spot in between.
The problem is only intermittent — it only happens on some boards, not all of them.
Also, the boards are well supported, so that doesn’t seem to be the nature of the problem.
Has anyone come up against this before?
Thanks in advance for comments.
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Adjust the infeed or outfeed tables. It was an issue with mine.
Don't know the specifics of that one.
Generally: rollers adjusted? Broken springs or cutter-head? Chips clearing correctly? Surely you've checked knife tightness.
I once broke a knife that had me briefly confused. Never had seen one break before.
Snapped my 24" cutter-head recently, but found that the bearings on one end had been incorrectly replaced and couldn't take grease from the zerk. Took several yrs to fail.
Reaction wood could do it if you're foolish enough to use it.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Snipe can only be defined as in the forward or trailing edges, not amidships. If the planer is wallowing out a center cut then you have an obstruction in the feed or chip extraction.
Keep in mind a planers feed rollers flatten the baord prior to cutting it, it will spring back to the original cuppage, just be more thin..the situ you describe is a series of events...the cupped board is flattened, the feed rollers stall and the wood springs up into the knives.
Face joint the wood first, then plane.
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I have irriatable Vowel syndrome.
Thanks to all for the ideas thus far. I tend to agree that the issue lies with the feed rollers. I'll let you know what my neighbor finds out.