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-14- G1017 12'' Portable Planer
Knife Setting
The G1017 Planer is equipped with a 2 blade cut-
terhead. The blades are set by adjustable screws
and are locked in position by wedge type gibs.
Disconnect the power cord from the power source
before adjusting or removing the knives. To
remove the knives:
1. Lower cutterhead down to provide access
to knives from the top.
2. Remove chip deflector.
3. Use open-ended wrench to loosen the bolts
locking the gib and knife in place. Turn
clockwise to loosen knife.
4. Slide knife out of cutterhead and remove
gib. Use care when handling knives - they
are sharp!
5. Repeat steps three and four above to
remove second knife.
If there is any variation between one side and the
other, make adjustments as follows:
1. Remove the depth adjustment handle.
2. Loosen the six screws beneath the edge of
the head piece and remove the top cover.
3. Release the tension on the idler bracket by
loosening the Hex Bolt.
4. While maintaining the position of one of the
two end sprockets (A), lift the drive chain
and rotate the other sprocket to raise or
lower the cutterhead assembly in the
desired direction. See Figure 9. It is impor-
tant that the designated fixed sprocket does
not move for consistent results.
5. Check parallelism between the knives and
bed. If both sides are parallel, secure the
chain and idler bracket into position. Set the
idler bracket so there is sufficient tension to
keep the chain in position on all sprockets.
6. Replace the top cover and depth adjust-
ment handle.
Figure 9. Chain and sprocket adjustment.
AIdler Bracket
The cutterhead knives on the G1017 planer
are extremely sharp. Merely brushing your
finger along the edge can result in a severe
cut.Take extreme caution when doing any of
the adjustments involving the cutterhead
knives. Wear thick gloves anytime it is nec-
essary to manually rotate the cutterhead
assembly.