Wood planer

[wantacoe]

I have a wooden fixture I made that I need to run through a planer to get perfectly flat. There are a couple tiny brads in the wood that I can not get out. How fragile are the blades on a planer? Would it destroy them if I did this? Thanks

 

[jimreed2160]

Well to the planer, tiny brads are tough to chew on. Each one will probably leave a nick in one or more of your blades. Brads from nail guns don't extract well, as you found out. BUT they can keep going. Can you use a nail punch to knock them down and get them out of the way?

 

[wantacoe]

Well to the planer, tiny brads are tough to chew on. Each one will probably leave a nick in one or more of your blades. Brads from nail guns don't extract well, as you found out. BUT they can keep going. Can you use a nail punch to knock them down and get them out of the way?

I didn't think about that. I think that may work. Thank you.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

You don’t want to hit any nails with your planer blades. I’d try my best to get them out.

 

[wrenchguy]

find someone with a thickness sander.

 

[Ty.]

you will ruin the blades, if they are already on their way out its not that bad, but if i were going to run something like that i would throw on a set af already junk "rough" blades

 

[The Cobbler]

yeah, as said they will nick the blades

 

[kjbenner]

If you can't get the nails out of the way, you could flatten it with a router and a sled instead of a thickness planer. The router bit will shrug off a nail easier than the planer knives, and it's cheaper to replace if you damage it.