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10th February 2013, 12:45 PM #1Senior Member
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What is it, please?
I picked this up with a box of odds & ends-mostly Makita type 2hp router jigs, from a liquidation sale.
I have no idea what it is - someone said a thicknesser blade setter...
Any ideas?
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10th February 2013, 01:06 PM #2
That would be my guess as well.
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10th February 2013, 09:08 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks, Hugh.
Do you know where I could find some info on how that one's used?
I've only ever set the thicknesser blades by using a parallel rebate about 10mm down into a bit of weathertex or masonite-just vbecause I knew no better, and that's where the scratch mark was before I took them off to get them sharpened.
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10th February 2013, 10:12 PM #4Taking a break
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You place it across the cutter head with the bar up so that the 2 discs touch the blade and press down until it sits solidly on the head. I'd assume that the screws on the other side are so that you can adjust the position of the discs to get the blade nice and parallel (should just be a once off adjustment).
Hope that makes sense - it does in my head
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10th February 2013, 11:31 PM #5Senior Member
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Thanks, but sorry-I'm no better able to follow it. (I'm a bit dumb...& lost)
I sat it on our thicknesser head & blade this arvo, and no orientation stood out as correct. Nothing made sense-that's why I asked here.
Thanks for trying!
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13th February 2013, 03:08 PM #6
How old do you think it is? Might be for a square-head planer??
Paul
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13th February 2013, 04:04 PM #7Senior Member
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No idea, really could be 8 to 25 years old.
It's just plastic, plus brass 'bolts' and steel shaft, and about 10" wide.
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13th February 2013, 07:58 PM #8
Possibly it is for a smaller version of this ... you need a different arrangement to when the cutterhead is a cylinder.
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13th February 2013, 10:01 PM #9Senior Member
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I know what a thicknesser is (thanks!) -we have two that look a bit like that photo of yours- a 12" Jeffwood & a 20" Jager- each weighs 450-700 kg approx.
The Jeffwood has a square cutterblock, the Jager has a sausage shaped one, kind-of circular with two flat spots, or an elongated square with a bit of a round between the flats.
It's just how to use that jig that's beyond my befuddled brain at the moment.
Thanks for the reply!
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14th February 2013, 06:33 AM #10
Hahaha ... I wasn't meaning the thicknesser ...
I think some people wouldn't have seen a square cutter-head. (Or ever want to )
This is what I was picturing ... made by a passing three-year-old child ...
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14th February 2013, 08:38 AM #11Senior Member
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THANK YOU!
(said by an ex-three year old child, now hair greying and mind falling from too many paint fumes...)
Thanks a a lot-makes sense now. I just has a brain seizure when trying tto arrange it, and that placement never occurred to me.
I'll try it again later!
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14th February 2013, 05:35 PM #14Senior Member
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Thanks very much-that looks 'more' right for the shape of it and the lesser adjustment in the brass knobs!
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Here are two squareish cutter heads from our thicknessers - one a Jeffwood 12" and the other a Jager 20"
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