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Powerful and robust with excellent functionality but also durable and easy to maintain. Designed to be used for a variety of production processes, wet or dry timber and laminations, mouldings, profiling beams, splitting or just planing and chamfering.
High Speed Electric Planer combines the latest advances in planing technology to provide excellent lumber finish at feed-speeds exceeding 2000 FPM. All-electric VFD drives.
Planer misalignment occurs when the cutterhead is not fully square to the board. In this animation, the cutterhead is tilted at a slight angle, and this causes the lumber to be improperly cut. The transparent area shows the amount of misalignment.
The planer rotating cutterhead knives create scallops on the planed board. The depth of the scallop is dependent on the feed speed of the wood, the rotational speed of the planer cutterhead, and the number of cutterhead knives.
When the lumber is held down improperly by the shoe, the rotating cutterhead knives will force the board up as it cuts into the lumber. This creates a deeper cut, called a snipe cut, at the beginning of the board.
High speed planer machines for finishing of green and dry lumber. Planers and molders are used to provide a uniform finished size and a smooth surface on lumber. Typically a planer has four (4) planning heads. A top head, bottom head and side heads. These heads contain knives that provide the finish. There are 16 to 24 knives per head depending on the feed speed required. Some planers will have in excess of 24 knives per head. The planning heads rotate counter to the direction of feed. The infeed to the planer has bedrolls and pineapple rolls to feed the rough boards into the planer machine. Planers can be driven hydraulically or electrically.
