Bought one of these to do some doors. Jeez, that's a scary tool!
- Is it OK to fasten a sock or something over the exhaust to stop it blowing shavings *all* over the room? (Yes, I know it'll have to be emptied pretty often).
- How do you stop it making a little step in the end of the piece when the front foot drops off the end? Like this;
My B&D came with a dust bag. Never use it, though.
Press down hard on the back while holding the front steady. Takes some practice. After that, you need to work out how to get a right angle face after a few passes. And tell me. ;-)
It's the "Ferm" 240V 710W one. About £80. Although the one that came is labelled "Freud" and the manual appears to have been translated from the Serbo-Croatian by a native Japanese speaker.
I looked at several in the local shed, including B&D and their own brand, which were much cheaper but distressingly toy-like.
It reduces skirting board to wood chippings very satisfactorily.
If this happens your blades are set wrong. The blades should cut to exactly the depth of the rear plate, and the plane runs off the end without any variation in height.
What to do about it is another matter, but if possible adjust the blades or drum position to cure it.
I think you've had a bit of a result there - you may have meant to get ferm, but got the freud, and it probably is a scary wee beast - I got their circular saw, and that has the same family trait! From my experience so far of owning tools from both makers, the Ferm and Freud, should be like chalk and cheese!
That sounds all too familiar as well!
82mm blade at a guess?
Was thinking that this might be the way of it.
I can well imagine if their CS is anything to go by! ;O) They rated it at 1200W, and I'm pretty sure they packed every single one of them in the box! [1]
Anyway, thanks for the mini performance report, most interesting. I'm wondering if their 1/2" router is a good as it might be too. If it is, I think I may be happy with that to replace the DeWalt I miss pretty badly!
[1] (you know how some seem to say they'll send you so many watts, but in reality it feels like they must have had a shortage of watts that day, and held on to half of them to put in the next machine coming down the production line?) ;O)
Yes, but this requires some practice to apply maximum pressure to the back of the plane while lifting slightly - or at least taking the weight at the front, and this is different from how you use it on the rest of the run - or at least the start.
By elderly B&D allows a fair old adjustment of the blades, but it's a fiddly business. I use a straight edge and set the blades with a 1.5 thou feeler blade to give clearance at zero.
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