Help needed, Craftsman wood planer.

[Haroun]

i just found this on Wiki
"A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer ......."

I was born in the UK and grew up in Australia, so for me it's a planer.

A jointer is used for flattening boards, a planner is used to get them to the desired thickness. The sequence from rough milled lumber is-
Jointers are used to establish a flat face, then a square edge on a board. then it can be run through the thicknessing planer to flatten the other face parallel to the other. Then the board can be run through tight against the fence to establish an edge square to the faces.

Most jointers also have the ability to create a rabbet on the edge of the board. They also are useful, if sharp & well adjusted, to prepare edges for gluing up large panels.