Thread: Calling Derek Cohen

masoth.I just looked at Major Panic's tut on setting up a thicknesser, its quite involved isn't it .....learned heaps today tvm

Shane my mate!

My apologies, I have only just seen this thread, and heard your cry. Should I welcome you into the light? Or should that be the dark?

I tell you what, come and visit for a beer (or coffee) and a play in the workshop - I should be free on Sunday. Let me know via PM.

Regards

Derek

Come on Dingo, been readin' about the BLOO-- Thicknesser, which really is a "thinesser" an know what your trouble is with out blinken'my eye mate.....
YOUR JUST PUSHING WOOD UP HILL........YOUR NOT ON THE LEVEL!!!!!!!!

You've scared the crap out of the cat, terrified all the passengers on the train, not to mention using Superman's assistant poor Robin........to offen....

Heard of scrap metal.....??
Tried reading lessons...??
Perhaps TNT...??
You've definitely got the irrits with this machine.....got it insured....could always say when it was running away from you it got hit by the train....LOL

Well good to hear your still attempting to do some woodwork.....not that much wood seems to be getting put through that machine....Hope your keeping all this writing material........out back dunnies would be queued up for miles........( actually sitting here with small glass of Dramburie LMAO at you, needed to smile again, thanks mate)

Hey made a couple of nice screen's last week & have two more cut ready to put together, let me know of any country fairs that are good if you hear of any, going to try that with some of my gear....Keep in touch...regards to all the crew....Kerry alias KEKEMO

Why oh bloody why must people insist on reminding someone of such things as errant thicknessers?

Okay... brand?... sigh.. sherwood yes ex Timbecon bought along with a mess of other gear when I didnt consider the extra travel time and distance worth it to go to Carbetex... learned my lesson well

Sooo whats the do with it?... well after posting the thread about selling it I reconsidered gave the now seriously munched manged chewed and spat on manual to her bloody highness who didnt lower herself to putting one dainty finger upon the thing "PRINT OF ANOTHER ONE YOU BLOODY DRONGO!" so I did... meekly I opened up the files and printed a new copy off just for her

A few days later I has cause to invite her highness out to the shed for ulterior motives... she saw the glaring snarling thing and so I asked her if she wanted to have a whirl at telling me how to fix it... she in her self righteousness smiled shrugged and simply said "you sort it" and wouldnt comment or look at the thing further

Later I found that she had decided that if I could wait a few weeks she would allow me to take it to someone like PMTS in Bunbury to see if they would have a go at sorting it... so Im bein good and waiting patiently... well not really cause Im not much of a patient sorta fella but the best I can

So whats up with it?... right the rollers on the bed wont stay at the right height for a starter no matter how tight I turn those pathetic small grub things down they refuse and drop below the surface (both infeed and outfeed rollers on the table) Ive been trying to figure out what bloody size they are and what their threads relate to in screws so I can just go buy a couple of PROPErR screws and toss the pathetic bloody gubby things bloody useless in my book... especially in a location like these are... so that is number 1

Number two I cant for the life of me figure out which bloody screws on the top to tighten or loosen as per what I think I understood me ol mate Harry was saying I was meant to do depending on the timber hardness Im trying to work... So far Ive screwed the big headed flat head screws but to no avail... Ive tried both upppp and dooowwwn and everything in between nothing makes a single difference the bloody rollers still drop...

It appears to me that there is too much pressure being exerted from above ie: the cutter side of things... as you look under and up at the head of the machine you have this row of wheel like things with little bits cut out sorta like a spoked wheel but not... that are all independant of each other and seem to ride along the top of the wood then behind that you have a heavy steel roller with some winding cuts in it which I take to be the pull through roller and then you have the cutter head itself... I get phissed of about then cause my neck starts to ache so Im not altogether sure of whats on the other side of the cutter head but figure probably another windy roller thing to outfeed it... anyways seems to me that as I put the wood to it the first set of independant thingys do zero then the second (windy cut) roller takes hold and pulls the timber through... but see I think that one is too damned low as more often than not there are deep cuts in the timber before the cutter head bites...

But see it sorta works at present... in so far as long as I stop everything after the fourth length through or the first sign of trouble and reset the bottom rollers and go again very slowly... very very touchy feely stuff this is!!

Funny thing is when it does grab and do its thing properly its bloody brilliant I mean swhooooooosh a couple of throws threw and its done... so quick even on the slow gear... which I decided to use with the old hard Jarrah and the large peices of Kapur Im presently using for the work bench... these will probably be the hardest woods I will throw at it but its seriously struggling to meet the challenge... just hope I dont buggar anything up motor or head wise before I get the thing finished

Anyways no worries eh?! its all good... Im still interested in what would be the basic 3 or 4 hand planes one should have as Im thinking of getting a couple anyways.

Good to hear from you Kerry

Your a mighty man Gungadin!
Keep toiling away at it....you will get there with that attitude, sooner or later.....your the best dog with bone attitude I have ever come across....
I've just come up from the shed, cut out another two screens, doing two each time slight variation to the patten each time, will soon have a nice collect to hit the fair's with.........
Now, must away thinking its time so a nice drinkie again....call in soon...actually you had better PM me with your address calling pass that way in a few weeks....might need a cuppa.
your sawdusty mate........KEKEMO........alias Kerry

Hi there Kerry no worries will do... but do give us a hoi before you set out for here! Im often up up and away to docs surgeons and such nonsence and Jos rarely ever in one spot long enough to know what shes doing... so a quick call and she'll be right

hahha, good rave Dingo man, so is it a problem with the roller pressure whilst feeding the wood in?

I am certainly not a wizz with the machines but i have sometimes it helps to take step back and try and identify what the actual problem is ;-)

often sit pretty simple, just wear and tear and adjustment type issues, like tightening the rollers, finding out is they worn a bit, woodgunk in the mechanism ? not enough pressure in the right place...

machines are inanimate, they do very little unless u make em or not, when they dont do what they are meant to its often cos they need some attention in a certain area...whataya reckon ;-)