Broken Industrial Era Planer to the Solar Age!



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  1. 4:06 "no… not done" we hear from the peanut gallery 😊 but he JuSt wanted to play 😊
    11:39 ahhh man wanted to see the 1000watt superglue masterpiece in action
    12:55 very clever putting that back together
    17:32 wow – THAT was DIY at a next level
    19:05 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 simply AMAZING runs better than my planner, wow
    20:40 Next project, fire starters

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  2. the best thing about the old brush motors is they are mostly universal DC AC they dont really care its only the on off switch that burns from dc power on the newer stuff. keep an eye out for old tools that have steel bodies those usually can handle running on dc right out the box. I have a collection of old grinders that I keep around because I can power them directly off my welder

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  3. if you do the motor lathe technique again clamping the motor down to the bench better would make your cut off disc last much long. that little big of vibration is hell on cutoff wheels it just eats them right up

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  4. something to think about is building a sharpening jig for the planer knives. basically a holder for the knife and a lathe way for a grinder to ride on. the machine I use frequently is from the 60s its a cast iron beast and it has a set up to sharpen the knives while they are still on the machine

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  5. You could make great press-fit 3D printed pulleys. If there's not much heat involved then PLA would do, if there's more heat then, of course, you have to go to either PETG or even ABS. The problem with PETG is that it requires to be bone dry while it's printing (preferably with active heating of a spool) and ABS requires to not have any drafts and well-ventilated room to print in, since it's kinda toxic. No drafts for ABS is easy to do with some sort of cardboard box over the printer, while it's printing. I recommend to try buying a roll of black ABS (since it's more UV resistant) and roll of PETG for experiments.
    Just my two cents.

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  6. I have 900€ Chinese planer, and I'd trade it in any time with your planer. That's a proper machine and I hope you can protect it from rain and moisture.

    My hands would itch to restore that one, show it some evaporust, a little paint remover, stone machined surfaces and put some protective oxidezer coating on non machined surfaces. Bearings on the blades sounded less perfect, so they'd be changed.

    Blades looked like total rusted crap in a video, but they did cut. It's some indicator for quality.

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  7. You'll also need knife setting jigs. Those knives have to be SO precise when you put them back in after sharpening, and you'll need to sharpen them at least once before you make it through all of the flooring.
    A simple 25 degree knife sharpener would work for sharpening, but getting them perfectly aligned afterward is brutal.
    Otherwise several companies like Shelix make helical cutter heads for that machine, those just have small teeth with 4 sharp sides you don't have to take all the way out of the machine. While that would save a ton of work and money on knives over 20 years, the $800 up front is pretty steep. However, shelix works with lots of youtubers, so Jaime may be able to work out a deal with them.

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