is not progressive like the skil planer mechanism and video tutorial on ebay ( like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqY4oqp-gCU ) had a big inconvenience… TURNABLE KNOB!!! I hate it, knob must be unmovable like skil!
Is the threaded shaft fixed to both to the shoe of the planer and the hand knob? Or does the hand knob have some freedom so it does not rotate with the lever, nut, and shaft?
Is there a spring in your mechanism?
Enclosing a crude section picture to see if I understand your mechanism.
both vac and planer motor have been re-wired with hi-quality copper=more hp=no dust ! also the cuts are so clean there’s no need for a sureform…just block it…btw it’s not a grit barrel either.
1=2002,better known as an 02(not pictured)…with the handle back…plus the two you see…to be perfectly honest with you, I can’t feel the real difference in either.I guess it comes from days of having nothing but a block plane and sureform=early 70s…Both handle styles work well with the forward grips I have created and function more like an oldschool big block planer. I DO prefer the handle back 02 for longer boards…but only by a small amount.
my forward M-16 GRIPS made the difference…a major difference…it allows me to control the planer from a wt. forward postion…by leveling out the grip control…in fact i can shape the board with my front hand only on the forward grip…so it reduces the dependancy of the wt. in the rear hand…like an old school handplaner.
