hey doods! so i think my P20SB foot plate is a little warped…shapes and cuts just fine but ive noticed itll leave behind little un even tracks as if it isnt completley flat…took a straight edge to it and it confirmed my suspiscions. im assuming i can maybe get it shaved like brake rotors? i live in oakland and with the abundance of machine shops none of them seem to know what im talking about, maybe im not explaining it correctly. but if anyone knows a place to get it done that would be awesome…if not, no big deal, nothing a hard block cant take care of between passes, id just rather not do that between each cut. thanks fellas!
Wondering if the body of your planer is shot or if the bearing carrier is melted by your description. Perhaps you can take the base plate off and shim it to be flat using some masking tape before re-installing the screws.
Perhaps a thin washer between the baseplate, and the planer body. Depends on how much space needs to be taken up. Hope you find a solution to the problem.
If the straight edge confirmed the warp, it is easy to true it up yourself. Aluminum is soft. You can do the same thing when trueing a sharpening stone. You could get a piece of 12x12 granite tile that is milled this same way. Just use a harder surface like garnet sandpaper (for instance) and Taki it to the tile. Begin to work down the warp constantly checking with the sraight edge. Get it flat as you can on one grit and work up to the finer grits to get as good a finish as the time you put into it. If the planer has a bed longer that the 12 inch tile, get a strip of granite backsplash and use as long a surface as you need maybe employing a belt from a belt sander. They come in all lengths. Best of luck.
Think a shim will work.
Which ever side is lower, just put a shim equal to the difference in height.
It should be near the rear of the planer.
This way, it won’t effect the depth of cut.
What you would pay a machine shop to mill it, you could buy a stock planer and put the OTF front shoe on that.