Thread: Lucas Mill Planer Blades

G'day Chook74,
Not trying to be a wiseguy, but why not just use the Lucas planer? It seems a lot of trouble and expense to reinvent the wheel. I get great results from the Lucas.

Originally Posted by Chooks74

Has anyone found an alternative to a Lucas planer blade kit? If so what do you use?

I am thinking of doing up a two pole motor that runs up and down while situated on the mill head carriage and side to side on a rail using bearings. Has anyone tried this? I plan to use a big router bit to flatten the surface kind of like the wood whiz.

Have a talk to Keith at YAS Engineering, he might sell you a cutter plate & shaft mount.

I built a little plywood box that mounts on my mill and holds a big Makita router swinging a 2" bit.

It lets me mill down big slabs or odd sized bits of wood for little cost.

The planer blade or wood wizz are a good idea, IF you are looking to mill a stack of slabs in a day on a commercial basis. But for the occasional one, buy a big router bit, make a frame to hold your router and clamp it to your mill.

The box clamps to the mill carriage and slides from side to side with it. A bit of Silicone on the runners helps.

Pics here

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...9&postcount=10

Ian

you could probly set sompthing up with a hand held power planner to do the same thing.

a power planner would be cheeper (for the power) than a big router and bit. it would be able to cut fowards and back.

iv been thinking of doing sompthign with my makita planner to do similar.

Keith, Lucas also sell a router kit complete with bit and router to do what you're talking about and it just attaches straight to your mill???

To tell the truth I don't 'finish/dress' my slabs for sale, there is a fella here in town who charges somehting like $25 sqm for surfacing, haven't used him yet, but that seems pretty reasonable to me

I will try to find YAS engineering thanks, I have thought of the wood wiz etc and even the 900 bucks for the planer blade is a bit rich. So in light of that the father in law and i are looking into some options for a fabricated planer blade, something like a 10" blade with angled tungsten teeth, I am will to do some testing and see how hard it is on the mill before I look elsewhere again. Big benefit is the FIL is a super metal worker and has the metal mill and lathe etc to fab it up. Will let you know how we go.

We have a finishing blade manufactured for us which are 300mm diameter, 10mm plate and can be made to fit any of the swingers.

I can do them for $600 including gst and freight. I will get some pictues of the blades for you.

arthur

Has anyone got one of those Lucas planer heads I can borrow for a trial run?

I'll pay for freight backwards and forwards, but would like to check one out before throwing out the clams for a new one, yeah I know a bit slack of me, but it's a bit of dough to throw at something without checking how well it works.

Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Has anyone got one of those Lucas planer heads I can borrow for a trial run?

I'll pay for freight backwards and forwards, but would like to check one out before throwing out the clams for a new one, yeah I know a bit slack of me, but it's a bit of dough to throw at something without checking how well it works.

Thanks in advance

If you find one Allan I will come and have a squiz. Especially to compare it to what is out there..

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Has anyone got one of those Lucas planer heads I can borrow for a trial run?

I'll pay for freight backwards and forwards, but would like to check one out before throwing out the clams for a new one, yeah I know a bit slack of me, but it's a bit of dough to throw at something without checking how well it works.

Thanks in advance

Allan

give greg at Sawtec a call. He is willing to do a rental/purchase of the planning blades.

tel: 02 6650 9030

arthur

Hi there
if you need to see the planning disc going just go and see me or ian at one of shows near you would be glad to give it a run for you talk to you about it
There is a few things we could help you with in how it works and how to get your best result .
There is also a sander that bolt to the mill as well ,does a great job
If you would like some more info on them just ask only to happy to pass on whati no.

Dudley

LucasMill

Arthur thanks for that, is that the guys who do Lucas blades? Would it be the actual model from Lucas? Yeha I know asking a bit much but hey ya never know if ya never make a fool of yourself...

Dudley, ok cool. Whats the closest (distance and time-wise) show closest to me at Gympie/Brisbane? The last time I looked at the Lucas site, the dates where last years or already happened.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Arthur thanks for that, is that the guys who do Lucas blades? Would it be the actual model from Lucas? Yeha I know asking a bit much but hey ya never know if ya never make a fool of yourself...

Dudley, ok cool. Whats the closest (distance and time-wise) show closest to me at Gympie/Brisbane? The last time I looked at the Lucas site, the dates where last years or already happened.

Allan

Yes and No its not a Lucas original but the blades are OK as far as Lucas are concerned.

He lives north of Brisbane but works from Coffs Harbour. Does chainsaws sharpeners, bars and chain, finishing knives for planners and molders, saw blades for all swingers, etc etc but most of his business is suppying large traditional mills. We still have many around here. Big 4 and 6 " bandsaws and 60" + saw blades.

If you think the $300 to $400 price for a swinger blade is high thats because of the quality of the blades. Some of the big blades there are over $6000 each.

If your in or passing through Coffs Harbour he is worth visiting.

I started using him when he was working for another company and have followed him ever since.

Anything to do with milling or cutting timber and he can get it from stock or have it made for you so if you have what you think is a strange idea you may get it working with him.

arthur

Originally Posted by dudley j

Hi there
if you need to see the planning disc going just go and see me or ian at one of shows near you would be glad to give it a run for you talk to you about it
There is a few things we could help you with in how it works and how to get your best result .
There is also a sander that bolt to the mill as well ,does a great job
If you would like some more info on them just ask only to happy to pass on whati no.

Dudley

LucasMill

Sounds good. Let me know if you are around Brissy.