For Sale Sheartak Spiral Cutterhead for Axminster Craft AC250PT Planer Thicknesser with 44 Carbide Inserts

[Woodman22nd]

Sheartak Spiral Cutter head for Axminster Craft AC250PT Planer Thicknesser is equipped with 44 carbide inserts. Each carbide insert has 4 indexable edges. The carbide inserts are slightly angled to the board feeding, which generates a shear cut, eliminates tear-out, and leaves a better quality surface finish on softwood, highly figured hardwood. It dramatically reduces operation noise. Simply rotate the insert quarter circle if one edge is dull or nicked. You will have a new sharp edge. Discard the inexpensive carbide inserts only when all four edges are affected. No need to sharpen these inexpensive inserts. This greatly reduces downtime. Sheartak spiral cutter heads reduce three-quarters of your sanding work and consume less power. Spiral cutter heads remove short chips in a staggered way and avoid dust clog at the hood port. Dust extraction is significantly improved. Sheartak spiral cutter heads can pay back your initial investment in no time. The total cost including shipping to UK is 469 pound. Shipping by UPS takes around seven business days.
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[Co1]

Are you selling one or advertising for them?

 

[fezman]

Tempted by this - Do you have any videos of operation and installation?

 

[Woodman22nd]

Are you selling one or advertising for them?

I'm selling one item. If my post is inappropriate, can the administer or any fellow member help to delete it? Thanks.

 

[Against_The_Grain]

Sheartak spiral cutter heads reduce three-quarters of your sanding work and consume less power.

Can you provide real proof of the "consume less power" statement? Most of what I've seen and read state that helical cutter heads increase power consumption significantly to the point that you need to upgrade the motors on the machines to be able to run them effectively for the same level of work as a regular straight-knife because of the friction from the shear cut and the continuous load from the staggered carbide cutters.

 

[Mike Fletcher]

For what it's worth, I purchased a Sheartak cutter head several years ago and there's no going back. The machine is quieter and the finish is much better than a straight blade cutter. There is no setup of the blades which produces a flat even cut every time. Yes, they're expensive but in my opinion well worth the money.

 

[fezman]

was that for the ac250pt @Mike Fletcher ?

 

[Mike Fletcher]

It was for a Lumberjack XXX, I forget the model number. Not a top of the line product by any means, but with the spiral cutter head it performs well. I chose the Lumberjack due to the cost and the availability of the Sheartak head.

 

[Doug B]

Can you provide real proof of the "consume less power" statement? Most of what I've seen and read state that helical cutter heads increase power consumption significantly to the point that you need to upgrade the motors on the machines to be able to run them effectively for the same level of work as a regular straight-knife because of the friction from the shear cut and the continuous load from the staggered carbide cutters.

Certainly Felder say their spiral block consumes less power, I can’t find their video at the moment but I posted it a few years ago when this question came up before.