Axminster videos , up market

[Blister]

Have a look at this

http://www.axminster.co.uk/article-Vide ... 106pt2.htm

Posh :wink:

 

[Philly]

Cool!
Congrats to Axminster for embracing video - a great addition!
Philly

 

[wizer]

Yep, Welcome to the the space year 2008 Axminster!

Tho, drop the heavy rock track :roll:

 

[DangerousDave]

Yeah, I noticed they've added new product vids when I was browsing their site the other day. Full marks to Axminster, it's definitely the best site of its kind. Does anyone remember old Axminster catalogues from the early 90's? The product descriptions always had a humerous/sarcastic comment about the product or its intended use :lol: They should go back to that again.

 

[DangerousDave]

Tho, drop the heavy rock track

Wizer, have you checked out the Veto ProPac video on Rutlands site? Led Zepplin as the sound track ! Cool 8)

 

[woodbloke]

Yeah, I noticed they've added new product vids when I was browsing their site the other day. Full marks to Axminster, it's definitely the best site of its kind. Does anyone remember old Axminster catalogues from the early 90's? The product descriptions always had a humerous/sarcastic comment about the product or its intended use :lol: They should go back to that again.

I remember those...always amusing to have a look though, I always wondered wot bright spark penned some of those comments - Rob

 

[skipdiver]

Is that planer as good as it looks?I have the record power and it is a pain changing from one function to the other.Doesn't have a cast fence either.

I may sell my record and get one of these.Unless there is better?

Obviously the video has done what was intended as i now want one.

I still have one of those catalogues Dave.It's like an hardback book.Funnily enough i have never purchased a thing from Axminster.Perhaps it's time i did.Seem a good company.

 

[OPJ]

It is good to be able to see something in action before you buy. I also like Record Power's idea of giving out DVDs that show off their own product range; I guess Axminster are kind of playing "catch up" in their own way.

Am I the only one having trouble watching this video? I press play, get past the intro with the logo and then... nothing. It stops, the timer goes back to 0:00 and even if I click play, I can't get it to start again!

Don't know why I'm so keen to see this when I already have the machine though! :roll: Skipdiver, it is a very solid, well-built machine for the money. Don't know if it's worth selling the Record for but the three-kinfe cutter block gives an excellent finish. You only have to remove the fence on this model and store it elsewhere. The tables on this machine swing up out of the way, which does make it a bit wider in use.

I still find that, as with other planer-thicknessers, the surfacing tables need checking after switching between modes regularly. It seeems, on this model, that as the tables swing up and down, this pivoting action has an effect on the knob used to adjust the cutting depth (there's one for each table). Out of all the PT260 clones though, the Record looks like the best.

 

[jk109]

Ive been an Axminster customer for a long time and they keep improving!

The videos are fantastic although I would prefer more tutorial based videos.. such as "How to build a bookcase" (Random example - you get my point).

I could see myself wasting many hours watching those kind of movies. Especially as the player goes full screen... nice addition!

The video works fine for me on PC. Have you tried the Festool video too? Maybe you have a problem with your computer.

Jake

 

[CNC Paul]

Looks like someone had the drawing the wrong way round........They ended up with a left handed planer



8)



Paul

 

[WellsWood]

Looks like someone had the drawing the wrong way round........They ended up with a left handed planer
Paul

I couldn't figure that either, but all the names on the machines are the right way round so it's not as I thought - that the video had been flipped somehow. I always assumed that machine wass "right handed" as you put it but maybe I was wrong.

Hang on a minute, I've figured it out, watch when he changes functions. The tables lift to the back of the machine instead of the front as in all the versions I've seen, so I guess it must be configured differently. Problem with that is now the block is spinning the wrong way isn't it? - my head hurts now #-o

The thing that really really REALLY bothers me though is the way he uses (or to be more precise doesn't use) the guard when surfacing. Will someone please tell him the timber should pass UNDER the guard rather than to one side, as this leaves a disturbingly large portion of sharp spinny stuff completely exposed below his wrist at the end of the pass.
Of all people, Axminster should know better [-X

Heartliy agree about dumping the dreadful music.

 

[DaveL]

Watch the bag on the chip collector, it appears to switch what its collecting part way though. :-k
And then goes back again. :roll:

 

[OPJ]

Mark, allow me to explain... On this machine, the fence can be set on either side of the machine to accommodate left-handed users. The guard can also be fitted to either side, but it still allows you to to feed against the direction of cut, whichever you side put it on.

So, in this video, the fence is fitted for left-hand use - not that kind of feature that "sells" a machine, I'd have thought, since Lefties generally have to work right-handed with every other machine.

As for the technique, this is something Alan Holtham also does in the Record Power DVDs. I guess it's their way of "being able to see what I'm doing", kind of like Norm, when he removes his guards... :?

 

[gidon]

The thing that really really REALLY bothers me though is the way he uses (or to be more precise doesn't use) the guard when surfacing. Will someone please tell him the timber should pass UNDER the guard rather than to one side, as this leaves a disturbingly large portion of sharp spinny stuff completely exposed below his wrist at the end of the pass.
Of all people, Axminster should know better [-X

Heartliy agree about dumping the dreadful music.

Yes the timber should pass under the BRIDGE guard for face planing! Very surprised Axminster would show an incorrect and possibly dangerous way to use the machine. Only when edge jointing do you have the guard the way it's shown for obvious reasons - and then only a small amount of the blade is exposed. Plus on my machine at least the edge of the guard is sprung to keep the jointed wood square to the fence.

Cheers

Gidon

 

[WellsWood]

Mark, allow me to explain... On this machine, the fence can be set on either side of the machine to accommodate left-handed users. The guard can also be fitted to either side, but it still allows you to to feed against the direction of cut, whichever you side put it on.

So, in this video, the fence is fitted for left-hand use - not that kind of feature that "sells" a machine, I'd have thought, since Lefties generally have to work right-handed with every other machine.

As for the technique, this is something Alan Holtham also does in the Record Power DVDs. I guess it's their way of "being able to see what I'm doing", kind of like Norm, when he removes his guards... :?

Thanks Olly, most enlightening. Actually I can see it clearly now (have drunk less beer than when I posted last night)- my problem was it appeared thst the guy was feeding from the other end of the tables, hence the confusion.

As for the guard issue, just because Alan Holtham also does it in his videos (I haven't seen them) doesn't, IMO, make it right. Machines at this level are, by and large, aimed squarely at newcomers to P/Ts - i.e. people who are unlikely to know better - and I just feel this is a very poor example to see set particularly by what is almost certainly the country's largest and most respected seller.
I also can't help but wonder, given the litiginous society we now live in, why they would leave themselves open to all kinds of grief should someone follow their example and injure themselves.
If anyone needs an illustration of this risk; I was at a site induction yesterday where we were told that despite the heat no-one on site would be allowed to wear less than the minimum allowable t-shirt with short sleeves - no vest tops permitted at all. This, we were informed, was not because most of us were old enough to look truly hideous in a vest in public (which we were), but because they'd someone had already attempted to extract compensation from the main contractor for sunburnt shoulders. :roll:

 

[OPJ]

Mark, I totally agree. With Record's Buyer's Guide DVDs though, at least they state that they are available for promotional purposes and should not be used for instruction on how to use a machine. Didn't notice any such warnings on the Axminster site...

The only time I'd consider working with the guard like that is when planing large-section timber that is too deep to be covered by the bridge guard anyway. Or, with very short pieces. But with those, I'd use a long push block-thing so my hands are always clear of the blades.

 

[Martin Brown]

I will make sure these comments are passed to those concerned on Monday so we can review and reply. Thanks for the comments and advice.

Martin