Woodstock W1683 - Manual (Page 23)

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Figure 18. Gib bolt tightening sequence.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Wear heavy leather gloves when tightening
gib bolts in case the wrench slips off and your
hand hits the knife. Planer knives are
dangerously sharp. If care is not taken
around them, serious injury may occur.
NOTICE
Uneven tightening of the gib bolts may cause
the cutterhead to become unbalanced,
which will lead to premature wear and tear
of the knives.
To tighten the knives after adjustment:
1. Snug the gib bolts on each end of the knife
but do not completely tighten them. In this
manner, work toward the center of the
knife by alternating back-and-forth from
each end of the knife. Figure 18 illustrates
order of this sequence. Make sure you only
snug the gib bolts enough to hold the knife
in place. You will tighten them more later.
2. Rotate the cutterhead and repeat knife
adjustments and step 1 tightening until you
have performed these procedures on all of
the knives.
3. When you come back to the knife you
started with, check the height with the jig
to make sure that it is still correct. If the
bolt height is not correct, fix as necessary
and re-snug the gib bolts; if the height is
correct, snug each bolt down a little more
in the same alternating procedure you used
before, but do not tighten the bolts
completely. Repeat again with each knife.
4. When you return to the original knife,
tighten all gibs completely in the same
fashion, repeating on all knives.
Do not connect power to
the machine while
performing adjustments.
Failure to follow this
warning may result in
serious personal injury.