Been having troubles with my Grizzly 15" spiral head planer. Boards want to hang up during the pass through. The cutter head and feed rollers don't stall out and make deep gouges and burn marks. Thought it might be crud build up at the front of the cutters but cleaning them did no good. I've tried adjusting the bed rollers with no success. Have cleaned both the infeed and outfeed rollers. Any ideas?
Is there a pressure bar behind the cutting head? Raise it just a little bit.
Yes, check the pressure bar.
How old are the feed rollers? Mine got old and hard, needed to be replaced.
Put a good coat of Johnsons paste wax on the table.....
Ed
The grizzly head can only cut about .10 at a time before hitting the drum so be sure the boards have been cut parallel. Another problem I have had is the lower bed roller opening can cause a board to hang up with the rollers properly set. Be sure to start with a flat jointed surface on the bed. I actually ground a small 45 degree chamfer on the output side of my roller openings so rough cut lumber would not hang on sharp corners with the rollers set at .005 above the bed
If you take a thick board, say 6" or so, and feed it in, you can look (from a safe distance) with a flashlight and see where it's hanging.
It seems like the pressure bar should be spring loaded. You can raise it up, but then it really wouldn't serve any purpose.
Went through and redid the adjustments and now all is good. The out feed roller was set at .010 and should have been at .020. The bed rollers were way off and basically at level with the table. I set them at .020 and am seeing very little if any snipe on a planed board.