The document discusses portable power planers and routers used in carpentry and joinery. It states that planers can be used to dimension, surface, rebate, chamfer and bevel timber. Routers are used to cut, shape and profile timber by performing tasks like cutting grooves, housings, rebates, sockets, mortises and moldings or profiling faces and edges. The document identifies different types of router cutters and their profiles like flush trimmers, shapers, straight/flute, radius, ovolo, edge, bead and rebate cutters.
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Planers and Routers
Unit 114: Prepare and use
carpentry and joinery
Portable Power Tools
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Objectives
To be able to:
7.1 State uses of a portable power planer
7.2 State uses of a portable power router
7.3 Identify types of router cutters
7.4 Identify the components used to make
adjustments to cutting depths and widths
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Portable Power Planers
Can be used to:
? Dimension and surface timber (same as a hand plane)
? Rebate timber
? Chamfer timber
? Bevel the edge of timber
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Portable Power Planers
Depth of Cut Adjustment
Connection for dust extraction
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Use of fence to plough groove
Connection for LEV, rear of machineTraditional
Depth Adjustment
Modern Depth Adjust
(with Micro-Adjust)
Fence Position, Fine Adjustment
Portable Router
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Routers are used to cut, shape and profile timber.
They can be used to:
? Cut grooves, housings and rebates
? Cut sockets and mortises (though with rounded corners)
? Profile the face or edge of a workpiece (mouldings)
? Cut circles in timber
? Shape timber to a desired curve or angle
? Trim the face of a workpiece flush
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Router Cutters and their Profiles
Bearing-guided ¡®followers¡¯ used as:
Flush trimmer Shaper
Straight / Flute
Radius
Ovolo
Edge
BeadRebate