Good day and Happy New Year!
Thought I would sneak in some shop time today, hoped to mill up some boards, business as usual. My DeWalt planer has been giving me trouble lately, getting more and more reluctant to feed the wood through. Needing more and more of a push from the next piece in line, or a pull from the outfeed side.
Today, it got to the point where it finally won't feed the board at all... normally you can feel it grab the wood and feed it into the blades. Today it just stops. Feels like the rollers aren't rolling.
I take very tiny cuts, I'm not in a rush, so I'm definitely not bogging it down.
I did the only thing I could think of, which was to flip the blades around, which was due anyway. No obvious problems there.
Cranking it to full height and looking at the rollers, no obvious problems there either, except, should I be able to turn them by hand? I can't remember if I ever tried that when it was working normally, wouldn't have a reason to. For now, the rollers will NOT turn by hand when nudged from underneath. Didn't want to get too aggressive under there, but with medium force they won't turn at all with power off (and unplugged!) ... Is that normal?
Any insights appreciated... be a while before I can get it looked at, with the holiday, so thought I would try here first. Cheers!