Hi, Could not believe there was not a way to "lock" the depth, but it seems that it has been overlooked on this planer... went and took a look at the exploded diagrams and don't see anything...
So... I guess that you will need to devise a way to hold that handle in one place... For me it would just be a matter on looping a bungee cord over the handle and then hooking it down to the bottom of the planer...that way the handle would not be free to spin as it wanted to or as the vibration tried to spin it.... It really should not take much to hold the handle in one spot. If you want something more professional looking you could look on the net or in a hardware fro a collar with a set screw that would fit over the screw part....take the handle off and slide the collar down over the screw...once the depth is set then tighten down tha collar and it will keep the screw from spinning open as you are planning...
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Hi,
Could not believe there was not a way to "lock" the depth, but it seems that it has been overlooked on this planer... went and took a look at the exploded diagrams and don't see anything...
So... I guess that you will need to devise a way to hold that handle in one place...
For me it would just be a matter on looping a bungee cord over the handle and then hooking it down to the bottom of the planer...that way the handle would not be free to spin as it wanted to or as the vibration tried to spin it....
It really should not take much to hold the handle in one spot.
If you want something more professional looking you could look on the net or in a hardware fro a collar with a set screw that would fit over the screw part....take the handle off and slide the collar down over the screw...once the depth is set then tighten down tha collar and it will keep the screw from spinning open as you are planning...
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