I am thickness planing a lot of poplar using a Jet planer/molder. It is attached to a 1.5 HP JDS dust collector via an 8 foot flex hose. My ty pical cut is from 1/16 to 1/8 inch. The planer seems to jam with chips a lo t and require that I stop planing and clean out the head of the planer and the hose.
The jet chip deflectors are set (as recommended by Jet)to about 1/8 in ch from the blades (front and back). Of course, we are generating chips, n ot saw dust. Is the solution to set the chip deflectors further from the h ead to allow larger chips to pass or, to get rid of the flex hose and hook the planer to a pvc pipe connected directly to the JDS unit ( a short flex hose would be needed to prevent the vibration from the planer being transmi tted to the collector.)
Anybody out there had the problem and solved it?
Len