Safety Test - Planer

Before using the Planer, you should:

• Ask Instructor's permission

• Remove All jewelry, eliminate loose clothing, and confine long hair

• Wear approved safety glasses

• All of the above

If the machine is not working properly, or sounding proper, you should:

• Immediately shut off the power and inform your instructor

• Keep using the machine, until it breaks down

• Turn off the machine

• All of the above

When feeding boards into the planer, you should

• go against the grain of wood

• go with the grain of wood

• go either with the grain or against the grain, it doesn't matter.

• All of the above

When feeding boards into the planer you should:

• Not force boards

• Keep hands off boards

• Allow the power feed to operate

• All of the above

Do not attempt to plane a piece that is:

• Longer than the distance between the rollers

• Going with the grain of wood

• Shorter than the distance between the rollers

• None of the above

When selecting the depth of cut and cut rate, you should:

• select the proper depth and rate depending on the stock being planed

• Do not exceed 1/16" per pass

• Both are correct

To remove a board that is stuck, you should:

• A. Pull hard to dislodge the board

• B. Shut off the planer

• C. Once the planer comes to a complete stop, lower the table

• D. Both B & C

It's ok to stand directly behind the board being planed, kickback does not happen with a planer.

• True

• False

_______________ look into the throat of the planer while it's running or in operation.

• Always

• Never

• Sometimes

• Occasionally

When finished using the planer, you should:

• A. Turn off the machine

• B. Wait for it to come to a complete stop

• C. Clean the machine

• D. A, B, & C in that order only.

• E. A, B & C in any order