Chicago Electric Heavy Duty Electric Planer Review

[@lucyferina]

Keep the passes parallel to each other, and slightly overlap them, maybe one or two sixteens each pass, and finally don't lift at the end to keep your passes equal, that way you prevent most marks and a rotary sander will finish it nicely. Oh and also secure your work piece, I know this was for demo purposes only but safety first. Good demo, I will get one as soon as I have time to get to hf.

[@AJSWoodworks]

Thank you for the advice, I'll have to try that the next time I use it.

[@racerxforever2765]

The front ajustable section is called a foot the back is called the heal.

[@GaryJ11]

As soon as you started planing the log, I saw another reason why it may have caught on you in the past 🤣

[@lizhuopan]

I‘d like to tell you this planer was made by our factory , do you have some good suggestion for us ？

[@AJSWoodworks]

Zhuopan Lee The dust bag had quite a few strings near the zipper, which makes it hard to close. Other than that there aren't really any problems that I have found with it.

[@lizhuopan]

thanks a lot for you suggestion , I will try my best to improve it !!

[@AJSWoodworks]

Zhuopan Lee Absolutely! No problem.

[@jeffbanfieldsflwr3537]

Zhuopan Lee Keep up the good work.

[@nathan484848]

@@lizhuopan one of the bearings for where the drum is where the knives are failed after about a hour of use

[@ldwithrow08]

I 'd get one but I have to wait for my 25 year old Craftsman to wear out. At this rate it will outlive me.

[@AJSWoodworks]

Good ole Craftsman. If this planar breaks easily I may go for a better brand.

[@henryher]

Craftsman used to make really good tools. The old ones are the best. I still have a bench grinder that I bought 30 years ago and thought it was dead because it was left outside on a work bench for three years. I had given up on it. My son was throwing the table out so he asked if I wanted to get rid of the grinder. I told him it was probably toast but let me look at it. The switch was bad so I tried a new switch. SOB that thing fired up and worked great all rusted to hell and back. I took it apart and cleaned it out, replaced the stones and bought a cheap HF stand for it. We are using the heck out of it now. I was thinking of buying a new one but no need.

[@dannysams2056]

Thanks for sharing.

[@murmur85]

FYI you can flip the exhaust port to empty on the right. You look like you’re right-handed, if you do this the bag will not be in the way.

[@AJSWoodworks]

Murmur Torres Thanks! I didn’t realize that was possible. I’ll have to try it out.

[@murmur85]

AJS Woodworks thanks for the review of the planer! I think it does a decent job and since it is a harbor freight tool you can take it back and replace it if anything is not to your satisfaction. On the opposite side of the exhaust there is a button. Push it down and push in and the exhaust tube will come out. Be aware there is a tooth on the exhaust side so when your pushing out watch that the tooth is evenly aligned with the gap so the exhaust will slide out easily. Hope this helps😄

[@toonybrain]

Thank you for this. I just bought this planer and I noticed on the box the port is on the right. So I’m wondering who changed it on mine causing all the chips to blow back at me. Doh!

[@donsmith3167]

@@AJSWoodworks I had to go inside and smooth out some of the lips in the hole that the dust tube slides in so I could get it in and out out. Plastic has a lot of Flashing on everything

[@jamesvaughn9138]

I bought one, but when I used it on a plank that I was trying to level out. It is leaving streaks, how do I fix that

[@AJSWoodworks]

It depends on how wide the plank is. If it’s wider than the planer, you’ll have to carefully level it out. I’m afraid I don’t know an easy way though.

[@SirHumano97]

Nice review. Thx for the demo.

[@AJSWoodworks]

Junier H You’re welcome, I’m glad I could help.

[@Dmosome]

Are you supposed to go with the grain of the wood?

[@AJSWoodworks]

Yes, it’s hard on the blade otherwise.

[@Dmosome]

Thank You

[@mterveen1]

Anyone have a problem where this planers’ light still comes on, you press in the safety and pull the trigger and then nothing happens?

[@AJSWoodworks]

That happens to me periodically. Not sure what’s going on though.

[@mterveen1]

@@AJSWoodworks happened to me about 3 hours ago… hasn’t fired since….

[@mterveen1]

Anything you do that clears out the malfunction?

[@AJSWoodworks]

@@mterveen1 Not specifically. I think it might just be a finicky electrical connection inside of the tool. I wish I knew what was wrong as well!

[@mterveen1]

@@AJSWoodworks time to do a tear down and work from trigger back!

[@grimsoul0]

What's the length of the base?

[@AJSWoodworks]

I'm not sure, I think it's about 10 inches long.

[@grimsoul0]

Ok, Thanks for the reply. I've been looking around online at hand planners but couldn't find the length for this one. Several adds would say it's 3.25 wide and none would give the length for some reason.

[@BenLingenfelter]

Hi, I just bought one of these to plane the rough face of some heart pine planks. After 9 or 10, it started making a weird noise, like a whine or rubbing noise, like it's struggling. Anyone experience this? Of course I threw the receipt away...

[@AJSWoodworks]

Mine has made a struggling noise before, but it tends to do that when it’s going over end-grain.

[@BenLingenfelter]

@@AJSWoodworks Thanks for the reply. I'll take it apart and see if I can find anything.

[@jimmyjones4227]

Hey Ben, I know its kind of late but if you give the cashier your phone number at the checkout, all your receipts get saved to your phone number in their computer system. Just go to the counter and ask for a return, say the receipt should be on file and they should be able to pull it up for you

[@pinkeye00]

"3-nuts"

[@racerxforever2765]

It's never recamened to plane down the end cut like a tree stump for a example. That's a butcher job at best.

[@AJSWoodworks]

It’s definitely harder to do. And harder on your blades.