I just bought a Holzmann HOB260ECO and it is very… meh - help on aligning it?

[Felipe]

Just sharing my experience.

It is a classic 1500£ level design where the tables fold to convert to thicknesser, it’s heavy and robust, what makes it meh is that it makes marks on the finished piece and it didn’t come dead square from factory, in a 250mm plank, the difference of thickness is 0.5mm edge to edge.
Because it seems that the blades aren’t square to the tables (both planer and thicknesser tables) I found it just really hard to make a nice seamless table top panel glue up. That’s the most frustrating part for me.

I guess I will need to go there and work on the alignment of everything, assuming this machine has adjusts.

Wish me luck. If you have tips to share on how to align this trapezoidal cutting machine, let me know! The cut marks is something I can live with, my goal is to make decent table top panels.

I attached a photo of a planed oak showing the horizontal marks.

 

[Inspector]

MikeK had a very similar machine with issues I think. He wrote about it in this thread. Holzmann HOB260NL P/T Issues
Spoiler alert. He ended up getting rid of the machine and getting something else.

If yours is new you might want to take it back before getting too deep into it.

Pete

 

[Felipe]

Coming back to this to report that the only thing that was actually misaligned were the blades, and to be honest, that could boil down to the fact that I used a cross bean through the thicknesses feed to move the machine, instead of using the hoist hooks. With the blades well aligned now the bite marks that the tool leaves in the wood are now narrower spaced, easing a lot the sanding afterwards I think I had only one blade actually cutting material previously.

I also found the reason why I was having an indented marking along the length of he final pieces: the tab that locks the dust collector on the thicknesser side was actually too long and was touching the piece as it is fed away from the machine. I filed that tab down, which solved the problem.

And, the dark and red markings are from the sliding plate, they are still happening but much less commonly.

I've milled a lot of wood since aligning it, and I am very happy with this machine now, as long as it comes well aligned from the factory (as there are not adjustment flexibility at all in this machine) it is worth the money in my inexperienced opinion. Hopefully it will last many years.