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11th February 2010, 01:58 AM #1
rollers or not
I was just wondering today about how many of us have used thicknessers without rollers in the table and those that have rollers in the table and wether there might be a preference for with or without and why....
I have a machine with and one without, the expensive machine doesn't have rollers the cheap one does, I prefer to use the cheap one because it gives me far less grief with timber stalling on the table as it feeds thru, it will if I have fed a sticky resinous bit of pine thru and not cleaned the table but it has to be pretty bad for it to stall, I can use it all day and no stalling......the expensive machine I clean, I polish, I silver glide the table, a few boards later and it will start to stall, 5 boards later and I have to help the boards thru, I have to keep reapplying silver glide to get the boards to feed thru, this is a bit dependant on the species of timber but it is typical, most frustrating and of course it happens on the final pass
What r others experiences in this regard
Peter
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11th February 2010, 07:15 PM #2Taking a break
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I've used a Casolin without rollers and SCMs with rollers and have rarely had a problem with timber not feeding without rollers. The strange thing is that I have regularly had to give timber a shove on tables WITH rollers . The table is waxed and as far as I can tell the rollers are set properly. Maybe I need to do something about the feed roller ...
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20th May 2010, 08:56 PM #3Intermediate Member
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There's a good article in Fine Woodworking Magazine, issue no.107 about how to set up a thicknesser. I'm using it at the moment to try and sort out an old machine I bought on eBay. Going by the article, If the timber is stalling (bed rollers or not) it's more likely the powered infeed and/or outfeed rollers are not set correctly - they should both be around 0.8mm below the blades cutting point. You may also be able to stiffen up the spring loading of the infeed and out feed rollers, so they press down harder on the timber. My machine has this adjustment, but I don't believe all do.
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