Its been a few days since I had time to examine the machine but I had another look today. Plus finally took some photos:
The first time I tried it the machine actually ran for 5 mins without turning off, although for the first 10-15 secs the motor noise kept dipping as though it was about...
Mine is one of the older green ones. I'll try to upload a picture of it later. I think most of the safety microswitches were added on later models.
On mine the power switch is roughly where that little black box is on your picture. There isn't anything like that black box on my router.
I had a...
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I can't see a safety interlock switch but I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for. The dust hood rotates round pretty freely and just rests on the infeed table without engaging any locks or switches as far as I can tell.
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I've taken the cover off the main power switch and it...
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Yeah it happens in both set ups. It runs marginally better when set as a planer, sometimes runs for as much as a few seconds before shutting off. In thicknesser mode it trips out straight away every time.
Hi there
This is my first post. Found this forum a couple of weeks ago and been enjoying all the usefull advice and looking at peoples' projects etc.
I'll hopefully be posting lots more in the near future about advice for my workshop and projects as well as reviewing a few of the tools I've...