It is out of alignment, and ends up tapering a square board It will be adjusted/tuned in the next few days, but until it is reset correctly, best to avoid it. Unless you are wanting to make some spare table legs, of course.
This post will be updated when it is ready for general use again.
I worked on this last night, but the table does appear to be in perfect adjustment. So next up - replace the blades, clean the gibs and gibways, re-adjust height. New blades scheduled to arrive Friday, I’ll likely install saturday about noonish.
In the meantime, it can be used, with the caveat that its likely going to cock your board to one side (this can be trued out with the planer). Imprfect, but better than nothing.
Also, hand planers out in the annex. A little practice wouldn’t hurt any of us.
I think we need to run some more samples through it. The 2x6 ran fine through it last night. Ran a 1x4 (about 4ft long)that had a bow in it. It appeared it was tapering the front left corner but with a straight edge looked ok. I would have spent more time on it but my wife seemed to be getting anxious for me to get home.
Yeah, I got the same vibe from it - it looked like the tables were not coplaner, but measuring it showed they were. Seeing boards coming out of it, I feel something is wrong, but can’t put my finger on it. Those blades have been on it a long time, and its more than possible we have enough dull ones on it to cause a differential cut. So I’m hoping that’s the thing, but again, with no real proof or confidence in the outcome.
Is this still considered inaccurate to use? The Tool Status Page lists it as “Out of Calibration”
I read on The Internet™ that tapering can be the result of the outfeed table being higher than the blades. This also might might explain why in my recent use (couple-five days ago) I was seeing the “rear” of the piece being milled less than the front, often not at all until several passes were made. I’ll do some spot checks tonight to see if this is the case.