Had my first major screw up this morning. After spending an hour sharpening my planer blades to a razor's edge and getting everything adjusted I set out on my latest board. After about 6 passes the planer went off like a bomb in my hand. I think after aligning the blades and tightening everything up I should have gone back and retightened everything a second time. One of the blades vibrated loose and stopped the planer dead when it hit the foot. My 15 year old Ryobi is toast. I doubt I can get parts to fix it. It will need a blade clamp.
I guess I will be learning how to use that Skil 100 after all. I will be spending the afternoon rigging up a way to hook the waste shoot on the 100 to my dust collection hose.
This is what happens when you don't have your planer blades 100% tight. Luckily nobody got hurt........I did check myself out for holes and spurting blood. None found.
If so, tell me what part is needed, I will gladly send it to you. (My belt is dead. I could probably find another one but I’ve turned to the Skil100 myself, so I don’t use the old faithful Ryobi anymore…)
Thanks for the offer. My Ryobi is a little different. I thought I had found the part needed. Then after further review I noticed a screw sheered off. Then I noticed that it badly fractured the bain aluminum body. This planer is toast.
After further review this planer is toast. Notice the crack in the main aluminum housing. When I say this thing exploded in my hand....it really did. Imagine the force to bend that blade sheer off a screw head and crack the aluminum housing. The unit is actually twisted. I was very lucky today that I didn't get hurt. Learned a lesson and won't make that mistake again.
Skil planers have a lot of karma !! They don't like to live in the same shop with other planers !!! It is likely that you didn't do anything wrong. The Skil just out karma-d the Ryobi causeing the Ryobi to fly apart. Whenever I brake out my Skil I hide all my Japanese tools behind closed doors so the Skil doesn't go after them. My Skil gets along well with my older American made tools. In fact I think my Skil is getting it on with my Stanley 55 !! Maybe in the future there will be some little jack planes running around in my shop !!!!! HEHEHE!!!!
Back on track. This virgin Vintage Skil 100 7.5 amp touched foam for the first time in its 40 year life tonight. I need to come up with a better dust chute attachment. If anybody has any ideas or photos please feel free to share them.
Taking a cue from another Swaylocker, I shaped a piece of EPS to fit just inside the opening for the dust chute. I stuck a piece of 1.5" PVC drainpipe to the top of the foam then glassed the entire piece with carbon/kevlar hybrid cloth. It could have been any kind of fiberglass cloth, but I used some scraps that were lying around. I poured acetone on the EPS after the glass cured to get rid of it and reduce the amount of cleanup to the inside of the exhaust chute. I then cut slots on the side of the piece to fit those that the sheet metal chute slides into. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but the closer you are to that, the better. I put a scrap of an old wetsuit sleeve over the whole thing and the planer housing to make the vacuum more efficient. I’ll post up a pic in a bit.
