Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Dr Stan]

(07-19-2015, 09:56 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: More work on the planer. I originally bought it as a novelty but I have a recurring job that really is too big for my horizontal mill. It makes a big mess of chips and oil and smoke. Butt always clinched, I keep expecting the cutter to throw the work on the floor. The planer is slow, maybe .2 cubic inch/min. But so easy on the nerves, so easy on the tooling budget. I can do both pieces at the same time and without any cutting oil.

Cleaning the 2x5 foot table here. Need to plug those holes with something and cover the tee slots. I'm open to suggestions.

Can you post pics of your drive set-up?  I have a 9' Cincinnati waiting to be put back into action and plan to use a 10hp 3 phase motor and a variable frequency drive to control the speed of the table.  I do need to see how the belts are positioned as the only planner I ever operated was run with hydraulics.