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Tim Nott

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Anyone use these? I'm looking at the Axminster own brand and the Jet JPF1 on the Axminster site, which seem identical to otherwise-branded 'junior' and 'baby' elsewhere.
What I'd realy like to know is how small you can go with mouldings. I have 300 metres of 15mm x 15mm moulding to run off - would a suitable PF handle this or would it just eat its own rollers?
 
I assume you are doing the mouldings on the spindle moulder, if so how much of the 15x15 is moulding?
Haven't tried something that small myself, but I would think you'd need to be very careful with the set up, and also not to lose some of the pieces with defects in the wood exploding in the cutters.
Usual approach with small mouldings (eg window beads) is to run them on a wider board, cut them off to width on the table saw, and then back to the spindle for the next one.

I'm sure someone like Johnny D will be along later to pass their knowledge on.
 
The moulding is a cove about half the width and depth of the piece.
Good point about ripping out of wider stock, but this is a pain in the bum with a compination machine - mould 2 edges, rip each side, plane each side, mould 2 edges etc, unless I could get away with , say 15 x 40mm stock and waste the centre piece

trousers":286p3ueq said:
I assume you are doing the mouldings on the spindle moulder, if so how much of the 15x15 is moulding?
Haven't tried something that small myself, but I would think you'd need to be very careful with the set up, and also not to lose some of the pieces with defects in the wood exploding in the cutters.
Usual approach with small mouldings (eg window beads) is to run them on a wider board, cut them off to width on the table saw, and then back to the spindle for the next one.

I'm sure someone like Johnny D will be along later to pass their knowledge on.
 
I would usually do it as trousers suggested i.e. ripping out of a wider board. There are a few potential problems with running a 15 X 15mm piece through the spindle. The piece could easily fall down into the tool well and jam and the feeder cant get close enough to the work piece without the cutters cutting in to it.

To solve these problems you could attach a false mdf bed onto the sindle to close the gap up as much as possible. You could then make a carrier to feed the 15 x 15mm sections with. Basically if you rebate a 15x15mm section out of a piece of 40mm X 40mm you can feed both pieces through the moulder together with support to the workpiece on all four sides and no danger of the power feeder catching the cutters or the workpiece twisting. You will need to either have a stopped rebate or screw a piece on the end so that the 40mm X 40mm piece pulls the smaller workpiece through.


Jon
 
Axminster have, or had at least a power feed on auction on their ebay site customer return.
 
These are long lengths around 2 metres, so I'm not worried about them falling down the hole. But to extend on your 40 x 40 idea I could start with a square section , mould each corner then rip it into four, which woukd give the feeder something to grip on. The saw marks, if visible wuould be hidden when the bead was in place

JonnyD":20x8435t said:
I would usually do it as trousers suggested i.e. ripping out of a wider board. There are a few potential problems with running a 15 X 15mm piece through the spindle. The piece could easily fall down into the tool well and jam and the feeder cant get close enough to the work piece without the cutters cutting in to it.

To solve these problems you could attach a false mdf bed onto the sindle to close the gap up as much as possible. You could then make a carrier to feed the 15 x 15mm sections with. Basically if you rebate a 15x15mm section out of a piece of 40mm X 40mm you can feed both pieces through the moulder together with support to the workpiece on all four sides and no danger of the power feeder catching the cutters or the workpiece twisting. You will need to either have a stopped rebate or screw a piece on the end so that the 40mm X 40mm piece pulls the smaller workpiece through.


Jon
 
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