Let me preface this post by telling that this damage is no reflection of General. I was planing a piece of 4/4 Padauk .. It was jointed on one side, but nowhere near the same thickness ..
I was lazy and way under estimated the thickness in the middle of the board, causing an impressive overload on the planer.
The result was a large bang and the Piece of Padauk actually breaking apart inside the planer head. The piece of Paudauk that came out of the planer looked like a shark had bitten it in half..
Anyway.. The resulting damage was impressive. Most of the real carnage was to the knives..
This is the head ..
These are a couple of close up shots..
In total, I had to replace 8 cutters and flip 3 after carefully inspecting them.
This is the remainder of 8 of them after removing the gib's holding the knives in place.
I had to replace one gib.. The rest survived..
This is the remainder of 8 cutters and a gib.. the rest went into the shop vac..