Thread: Where to buy wooden shims / narrow wedges for use with thicknesser sled?

If you have table saw you can make your own.

Originally Posted by NathanaelBC

So I just bought Trav's old Ryobi thicknesser with the intention of using it as a poor man's jointer for squaring up warped and skewed stock in addition to thicknessing; using melamine-laminated chipboard as the sled but I've scoured both Masters and Bunnings and can't find anything I can use as narrow shim wedges like this:

shim.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UONmuQt_98

Ideas?

Good Morning Nathanael

You make them.

I don't have a jointer either, and find that the wedged boards sometimes still wobble on the thicknesser sled. My solution is a dob of hot melt glue on the wedged corner and the diagonally opposite corner. A sharp rap with a hammer and the glue lets go. Most boards do not require gluing.


Fair Winds

Graeme

ADMINISTRATOR: Not sure how I double posted the first line of this response, but the edit function would not let me into the first post to delete it. Obviously, I am not a nerd!

http://www.bunnings.com.au/wedges-bu...orted_p1146750

Also available at Home Hardware as non-wedge shaped spacers.

Thanks, they're polypropylene but says ok to saw so if I somehow managed to make contact with the thicknesser blades then it'd be ok.

I use masking tape and a hot melt glue gun.

Apply tape to sled .. apply tape to stock so it matches the sled.

Turn stock tape side up, then apply a dob of hot glue on the tape ... before it sets, quickly tip over so it lines up with tape on sled.

Melt glue will sag and stick to tape on sled effectively making a custom shim.

Slow and a little tedious but I found that shims would move requiring hot glue anyways ... So same same ...

If you haven't a table saw yet, how about you call around and we can make some?

I just use some old off cut Merbau sliced into wedges and hot glue like Glenn suggested. I also have half a shoebox of plastic wedges used for laying floorboards somewhere here....they look like very thin door stops. These would work too.

I'll show that I'm not a complete a$$hole and we can put the machine through its paces. That thickie is a good machine. I'm about 10 minutes from Trav.

Ev

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

I don't have a jointer either, and find that the wedged boards sometimes still wobble on the thicknesser sled. My solution is a dob of hot melt glue on the wedged corner and the diagonally opposite corner. A sharp rap with a hammer and the glue lets go.

If you squirt some metho on the hot melt glue with a syringe (the ones for refilling print cartridges is ideal) the hot melt glue will soften and is easier and cleaner to remove.


Peter.

Originally Posted by Evanism

If you haven't a table saw yet, how about you call around and we can make some?

That's very kind, thanks, will take you up on that offer. I have a 50x50 length of Merbau I can bring around. Will you be around this long weekend? We'll be out of town on two of the days, not sure which. And then BarCampCanberra the Saturday after and then an Urban Homesteader's on the Sunday UGH booked out for a while

Decided not to get a table saw just yet as I don't have a work area so I'm dragging my gear out into the backyard when I need to use it so things like router table, table saw, workbench etc will have to wait till we clean out the garage, put up some partitions (I have a MINI so I can dedicate the other half of my side of the garage to a work area) and install dust extraction.