Accu Head Planer Head Arrived (Photos)

[John Morris]

UPS drove up while I was out working on my rocker.

The delivery was on time as they said it would be.

I will post a thorough review of this later this week once I get it in and run some boards through it. But for now I'll show you what came in the box.

I was very impressed with how they packed it, the cardboard was nice and thick, taped from here to the moon, and the sub box that the Accu Head came in was wrapped from here to AZ in bubble wrap. The Accu Head box is impressive, I was not expecting it to come this way. The box you see below is a wood box that was within the cardboard box.

 

 

Once the box is opened you can see how well the head is wrapped and packed further still.

 

 

Once I removed the screws holding the left partition in place, the head came out easily.

 

 

In the baggy is the T-Handle for the cutters, 10 hex screws to go with the 10 extra cutters Accu Head throws in for you. The plastic box shows only 7 cutters, that's because 3 of the cutters floated across the divides and settled on top of the others.

Below, much better! All 10 cutters in place! This is pretty cool, they included 10 extra cutters in addition to the installed cutters on the head already.

 

The Accu Head with cosmoline.

 

 

I am surprised at how heavy this is. It's a wonder if my little Dewalt 735 can carry this weight. But I still have to pull out the old head, it might be just as heavy.

I am out to the shop now to clear off my bench, break out my tools and get to work installing this. I'll check in later! Thanks for reading!

 

[Gene Howe]

Nice looking tool. Looking forward to seeing how well it planes. Bet you are, too.

 

 

[Ron Dudelston]

I gotta get me one of those!

[lew]

Sweet upgrade! Hope the installation is easily accomplished!

[John Morris]

Still workin on it!!!!!

[John Morris]

Update: I got about 2 hrs into the install and it's almost finished. It's not difficult at all, I actually had the old head out in about 20 minutes and the new one is in now. I am in the process of re-installing the cutters and buttoning up the machine.

The longest portion of this operation was taking the knives off the head before installing, cleaning the cosmoline off, and reinstalling the cutters. I got an hour into that alone easily.

I'll have it buttoned up tonight after work and I'll have a board run through it as well.

 

 

[John Morris]

Got it wrapped up tonight.

I swear my planer is quieter running with no load, before it howled, now it purrs.

And when I feed a board through, I can barely hear it cutting. No kidding, I can barely hear the board being planed!

I do however have a couple ridges showing up, there is a trouble shooting solution for this, I just need to read it and adjust. But I am pooped! I'll deal with it tomorrow. My preliminary feelings? Why didn't I do this a looooooong time ago! What an improvement.

 

[John Moody]

Great to hear that it is going well John. I know the noise was one of the biggest changes I noticed. You can actually talk to someone while running a board through. On mine the cutters run in the spiral around the head. I have not see any issues with ridges.

Looking forward to a full review on this though. I think it would be a very nice upgrade for anyone.

 

 

[Mike Dillen]

How much was the cutter head John?

[John Morris]

Robert, here is the contact info, I had to call and order. I got my information from reviews and just googling accuhead and read up on the product.

AccuHead contact call 510-780-9108 or e-mail orders@accu-head.com

Here is the Finewoodworking information on it http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/16771/easy-to-install-spiral-cu...

And like I said, you'll have to do what I did and google it and read and read! I can say though, I am completely happy with mine, I meant to post a review months ago, I guess I need to get on that.

Try this link too, ACCUHEAD.com. I could not get it to work from where I am at right now.

I am sorry we don't have the review up on our site for the ACCUHEAD, I'll do what I can to get it up here asap.

[John Morris]

Mike, it cost around 250 bucks plus shipping.

[John Morris]

I had the same luck you did Robert with the links. Give Steel City a call, they have the heads in their machinery exclusively. Click HERE for their contact info. Robert, when you say this site your not sure how to use, do you mean ours?

Tell us exactly what your having issues with and we'll give you a hand!

[Ron Dudelston]

Here's the deal guys. I talked to Steel City and Accu-Head is a division of Steel City Tool Works. The Accu-Head site is down temporarily but they are indeed still making heads. To order the heads call Steel City Tool at 1-877-724-8665. This is the Tech Support line but the sales for Accu-Head go through them. Hope this clears everything up.