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24th February 2018, 08:05 PM #61
The bit broke!
When in doubt, hammer!
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24th February 2018, 08:10 PM #62
And my very slightly larger torch did nothing either. Pretty sad when you actually touch the surface after torching it for well over a minute.
I seem to recall that the one time I made Creme Brulee (for which I bought it) it took bloody ages. Perhaps Sous Chefs should also be using MAP torches? Or Oxy?
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24th February 2018, 08:12 PM #63
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24th February 2018, 08:16 PM #64
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24th February 2018, 08:23 PM #65
That was before replacing the problem cutter. For the smashing procedure I took out two cutters either side, for obvious reasons. Apparently something remained under one of the two cutters on one side, despite much vacuum, CA blowing and wiping (or NCA dropped a micro chip of TC in one just to aggravate me..... ). Anyway, when a wide board went through there was a one cutter wide groove a couple of thou deep. Not much, but could be felt and seen. Not a huge big deal to sand it out, but.....
Took the two cutters out, cleaned up again, put a 305mm wide piece of Blackwood through (offcut from the table) and all is well again.
Now all I have to do is work out why a snipe problem has developed 60mm from the back end of almost every length board that goes through. Never used to happen.
I now have a permanent 400mm outfeed extension on the thicknesser table, and that has slightly reduced the occurrences, but it's still there (and dammit, I was talking to the Felder guys at Sturt last weekend - forgot about it). I can sometimes workaround it (longer than necessary board, send a following board through, but it shouldn't be happening...)
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24th February 2018, 09:22 PM #66
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1st March 2018, 07:00 PM #67
A brief follow up. I had to go to Felder in Emu Plains today to get 2½m of 120mm hose (it's polyurethane and the part that is outside the shed (in perpetual deep shade) has been catastrophically kangarooted by UV). I will wrap the new length in silver tape.
Anyway, I was describing the last cutter problem to Stefan, and he said "well, seeings how you had to smash it, here's a box of 10 replacements" for which I imagine they charge around $70-80. An excellent gesture!
He wasn't very happy to hear that I had 4 years out of the first face of my cutters (and after kilometres of hardwood), and even less happy to hear that I have buzzed somewhere around 100 nails with (almost) no disastrous results - just a couple of tiny raised ridges in the timber, and three cutters have had to be turned. "No wonder we don't sell many replacement cutters" he moaned.
I didn't have the heart to tell him that I had a 9/10 full box of spares at home (from original purchase), along with a full replacement set from SJ Tools which was a fraction of the Felder price.
Bob Jalillian (one of the guys that was at Sturt) did a quick demo of some of the machinery. He sat on the slider of a Felder saw and said "Now push it with one finger" then he actually stood on the extension table of one of the Felder Thicky/jointer combos. Pretty impressive I have to say.
Oh, Tony, I got a spare new screw to replace that now slightly dodgy one. After giving me $80 worth of cutters, they had the cheek to charge me $3.04 for the screw.
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1st March 2018, 07:14 PM #68SENIOR MEMBER
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Glad to see you've got it sorted. Haven't gone through the entire thread but did you try one of these?
https://www.bunnings.com.au/trojan-i...r-set_p6060262
I've got a similar one that came with a socket set, i've never had a screw that i couldn't remove with one of these. Have never used it on a car before but loads of times on machinery with rusty screws. I find them better than a powered impact driver as they often provide too much torque that it'll snap the screw off before you're able to loosen it. The manual tool provides much more control over the hammering/torquing required to loosen jammed bolts/screws
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1st March 2018, 07:44 PM #69GOLD MEMBER
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FenceFurniture you've got no shame! The way I figure it, at the current rate of usage, you now have sufficient replacement cutters to last you until you're 125 years old.
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2nd March 2018, 10:44 PM #71SENIOR MEMBER
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You could try warming in an oven, that way there is not chance of heating too much to damage it. Cooling in a freezer and repeat.
I wouldn't use an 'electric impact'( too harsh ), I would try and use a manual impact driver, if you can.
Applying torque as you tap it with a small hammer may help.....
Buy some more torx bits and take your time....
Steve
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2nd March 2018, 11:16 PM #72
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4th March 2018, 07:06 PM #73New Member
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removing torqe screw
Get new torque bit place in head of screw get assistant to hold bit with pair pointy nose pliers whilst you place good solid steel drift on head of bit the give it a few really good whallops with a solid gimpy then screw out with 1/4 drive socket. guaranteed to work. DO NOT HEAT AS YOU WILL MAKE IT TOO HARD TO DRILL AS LAST RESORT.& IT MAY BEND SHAFT.
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