"Slickening" your planer tables

[Brad_bb]

the trouble is my dad had and used the same can for 30 years.  I think I inherited it.  a dab ul do ya.  @Brad_bb

I'm on at least my 3rd can in 8 years.  I wax the cross bars of the mill so cants will slide easily.

[Don P]

In the cabinet shop the molder had 5 flexible 6" suction drops, basically a throughfeed planer. During setups and maintenance I'd often pull them and leave them dangling as I pulled hoods and heads. I had the can of paste wax sitting on the infeed table and yup, a yellow can will just fit inside the pipe. I heard it slurp the can up and then into the main line. Not sure why but I was jogging along under the main pipe as it bounced along overhead, out through the door and Bang! as it went through the fan, then I heard metal whirling in the cyclone. I climbed up the dust truck and peered down inside the box. There was a smushed wax can and a fan blade, oops! We figured we had the slickest cyclone in town  :D.

[RichTired]

OK, I have a DeWalt table top planer and I understand the Johnson's paste wax for slicking up the bed, and etc. 

But what do y'all (you guys) use to clean pine resin off the stainless steel infeed & outfeed tables and the planer knives.

[SwampDonkey]

Perhaps some Industrial Strength Resin Remover?

This product is USA made.

[RichTired]

Thanks, but the link appears to be incorrect. Site cannot be found.

[doc henderson]

OK, I have a DeWalt table top planer and I understand the Johnson's paste wax for slicking up the bed, and etc.

But what do y'all (you guys) use to clean pine resin off the stainless steel infeed & outfeed tables and the planer knives.

WD 40, acetone, alcohol, mineral spirits...  any solvent for sticky  stuff.

[RichTired]

Thanks Doc.

[Larry]

Johnson Paste Wax had been impossible to find locally.  HD, Lowes, and Walmart used to sell it but no more.  Online the price is out of sight compared to 2 years ago.

Anybody have a good substitute?  I bought a can of Minwax paste wax at Lowes last week but have not used it yet.

[beenthere]

Amazon is one place to get the Johnson Paste Wax.  

[azmtnman]

Johnson Paste Wax had been impossible to find locally.  HD, Lowes, and Walmart used to sell it but no more.  Online the price is out of sight compared to 2 years ago.

Anybody have a good substitute?  I bought a can of Minwax paste wax at Lowes last week but have not used it yet.

Minwax is what I ended up using. I got an old can at an estate sale that they threw in with the other stuff I bought. I don't have experience with anything else but it made for a nice, slick surface. 

[metalspinner]

@RichTired 
I use a spray can of oven cleaner to clean blades and router bits. 

[kantuckid]

After I've run a bunch of pine through my planer, (and between blade changes) I'll open the top and clean the blades with a razor blade holder-same as used for gasket cleanups. 
One of my "tightwad solvents" which I use for shop cleanups, not in a paint I'll be spraying or thinning, is leftover lacquer thinner and various paint solvents I pour into an old gallon can. The various pigments and such settle out over storage time and what I pour off the top serves well for certain cleanup jobs like cutters on wood machines and machine parts cleanups that don't call for new solvent. 

[kantuckid]

Johnson Paste Wax had been impossible to find locally.  HD, Lowes, and Walmart used to sell it but no more.  Online the price is out of sight compared to 2 years ago.

Anybody have a good substitute?  I bought a can of Minwax paste wax at Lowes last week but have not used it yet.

Minwax is what I ended up using. I got an old can at an estate sale that they threw in with the other stuff I bought. I don't have experience with anything else but it made for a nice, slick surface.

Ace hardware has it per google search at local stores here. I'm out of the brown tinted Minwax but Amazon has it at more than Johnsons. I've wondered if it's easy to tint with my shop stain items? I've got various dry stains and liquids too.