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Shaper
Darren:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on December 13, 2008, 04:23:26 PM ---Nice compact machine there Darren, looks totally intact.
John
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Yes I was surprised just how compact it is, you don't need much room for one of these. Only bits missing that I can see are a couple of handles with the square holes.
These must be obtainable from somewhere I guess, I'll start hunting some down.... ::)
bogstandard:
Nah!! Don't need to hunt them down, just get a square drill and make them up yourself.
Bogs
Darren:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on December 13, 2008, 04:23:26 PM ---
Before you go trying bits out on it, read all about swivelling and positioning the clapper box, you can do all sorts of damage if you have it in the wrong position for the job in hand.
John
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On this what I have found is that when machining side work rotate clapper box away from face being machined (and tool towards). Thereby the clapper lifts the tool away from the work face and not dig into it on the return stroke.
Horizontal work keep clapper and tool vertical, or you can have the tool facing away from direction of travel. So it doesn't dig in if it slips under the pressure a shaper puts on tooling.
That's it so far, still reading up..... :D
Darren:
On thing that did surprise me,
I currently have the shaper still on the trolley from the previous picture. Not as yet on its stand as I need help to lift it.
So, crouching on the floor when testing I expected the trolley to jump backwards and forwards quite violently. It doesn't, just a very slight rocking motion.
This of course will take some power out of the cutting stroke and should operate better when properly mounted.
Darren:
Time to get this tool off the floor and somewhere I can not only see what I'm doing but to tinker and set it up properly.
Only having myself as help yesterday it looked to be a daunting task as it's quite a heavy machine. I didn't take many pic's of the actual move so I'll try to explain how I did it as a one man team.
In the picture you can see the cast iron shaper stand to the left. Doesn't look much but with the bottom filled with concrete it was not easy to move about.
The shaper looks quite precariously balanced on top of a pile of wood which is on a pallet truck. It was in fact very solid, good job really as I had to keep climbing on/over it to get through the doorway to the right.
The question is how did I get the shaper way up there without a pulley system or some such device?
Simple, I would slide the shaper on the board it's sitting directly upon to one side, left or right in the picture. I say slide, more of a heave, struggle, sweat, take a rest, breathe and have another go !!!
When to one side I could lift the opposite end of the board using it as a lever to lift the shaper, then with the other "spare" hand slide another bit of timber in and let the board back down. After checking all was still safe and stable the shaper was "slid" to the other end of the board. Lift, insert timber and so on.
Repeat until correct height is achieved....!!!
A couple of hours later, yes it really took that long, place a protective bit of MDF on the stand and slide the shaper over.
Easy...well not quite, but better than simple lifting...!
A shot from the doorway
Well finally she's in place, if the workshop looks messy it's cos' the shaper now resides where a shelving once stood...not that my workshop is usually tidy mind.
I put a couple of 3x3s under the stand so that it could be easily be moved with the pallet truck at a later date.
As you can see she's a bit cleaner now, but still some work to do....
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