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Edging on a bandmill.

Started by paul case, September 03, 2011, 07:18:54 PM

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Chuck White

Quote from: paul case on October 03, 2011, 09:25:56 AM

The moveable blade is stuck on the shaft. anyone got any good ideas how to get it loosened up besides pb blaster and the schorch wrench?  pc

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Flat coca cola...soak it...wait a day..tap it some...soak it again. Works like a charm...just be sure to rinse it when it comes loose...then grease it...
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A few times in the past I tried setting aside all my flitches for a week, and then edging them on the mill in big batches. Bad idea. It gave the illusion that I was pumping out timbers faster but my overall production was lower and it was a back killer.

After I figured out that batch edging wasn't the way to go I made it a practice to edge after every log. Up until last year, that is. That's when I bought a twin-blade edger. Now I pull the flitches off the mill and stack them next to the edger infeed. I spend a fraction of the time batch-edging then when I did it on the mill. My back loves me.

Bruce    LT40HDG28 bandsaw
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paul case

my hope with the edger is i wont have to pick up the whole flitch at once. i hope to be able to pull one end to the edger rollers and the pick up the other end and guide it in. with batch edging or otherwise quite often i have to pick up a whole flitch to get it where i want it.

when i get the thing up and running i have plans to fix a rack to catch the boards and edgings so i can pick up the whole mess with the forklift and carry it to the slab rack, sort off the trimmings and carry the boards to the cuttoff table.   pc
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