How to Use Dewalt Planer
The DeWalt power planer is a very useful tool for those enthusiasts who need to quickly remove wood along a surface to make the surface completely straight. For example, it's an excellent tool of choice when straightening the edges of multiple floor joists, or quickly shaving down doors so that they slide more easily within their frames. Learning how to use such a tool is a easy process because the control switches were logically designed to give you maximum flexibility to make the tool do exactly what you wish it to do. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Extension cord
- Eye protection
- Work gloves
- Carpenter's pencil
- T-square
- C-clamps (if desired)
Instructions
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Secure the board or material you wish to plane so that there is no chance that it will move or slip while you are planing. C-clamps or temporary nailing down the item are both useful ways of doing this. Mark the material to be planed with a carpenter's pencil, and draw a line using a t-square where you wish the finished surface to be located.
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Adjust the depth of cut of the cutting blade using the large depth adjustment knob located on the top front of the tool. Turn the knob clockwise to increase the depth of cut, or counter clockwise to reduce the depth of cut. One full 360-degree revolution of the knob represents knob changes the cutting depth by 1.5 mm (millimeters). Each single click when turning the knob will change the depth by 0.1 mm. Calculate how deep you need to cut to remove wood down to your previously drawn straight edge.
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Adjust the removable parallel fence, which is a device which keeps the tool pressed firmly against the side of the material you wish to plane (such as the edge of a door). Loosen the wing nut which secures the parallel fence to the left side of the planer. Slide the fence to the left or right, depending where you want the "arm" of the fence to contact the surface being planed. It may be set to contact either the left or right side of the work material.
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Put on eye protection. Unlock the tool in preparation for use by slightly depressing the trigger switch located on the inside of the handle and pushing to "lock-button" once to release the lock. Release the trigger.
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Squeeze the trigger, and lower the unit to the work surface. Keep the planer "foot" firmly in contact with the wood surface, with a slight sideways pressure to keep the fence in contact with the wood. Gently slide the planer back and forth across the span of wood to be planed. Never stop the forward or backward motion, or too much wood will be removed. Watch the straight edge you previously made on the surface of the wood; stop planing when the surface becomes flat with respect that straight edge. Release the trigger, and unplug the planer.
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