Table saw?
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Table saw?
I've tried several of the commercial balsa strippers with varying degrees of success but I'm now thinking along the lines of a small table saw. Any recommendations?
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Re: Table saw?
I have one of these: https://www.proxxon.com/en/micromot/27006.php
Works well on various materials like balsa, pine (standard cross-cut blade), and with the HSS blade aluminium and brass. Cutting depth is limited. Struggles a bit with plywood.
Works well on various materials like balsa, pine (standard cross-cut blade), and with the HSS blade aluminium and brass. Cutting depth is limited. Struggles a bit with plywood.
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Re: Table saw?
Ditto on the Proxxon, I picked up a broken one for £20 years ago (had been dropped and the pcb cracked - easy fix) ...
https://www.proxxon.com/en/micromot/27070.php
For stripping balsa, it's outstanding - worth finding a wee clamp that'll fit the fence to hold the strip down from the top as it's being cut - easily cut up to 12.7mm - I use the tungsten blade. Definitely worth making a zero clearance insert if you want to cut less than 1mm strip.
Still prefer my old 3 wheel Burgess BK3 bandsaw for cutting ply etc. though.
Have never tried cutting balsa with my festool tracksaw LOL, but I do use this for cross-cutting balsa sheets and short ply sheets every day ...
I suppose it could be modded with a longer rail for strip
Neil
https://www.proxxon.com/en/micromot/27070.php
For stripping balsa, it's outstanding - worth finding a wee clamp that'll fit the fence to hold the strip down from the top as it's being cut - easily cut up to 12.7mm - I use the tungsten blade. Definitely worth making a zero clearance insert if you want to cut less than 1mm strip.
Still prefer my old 3 wheel Burgess BK3 bandsaw for cutting ply etc. though.
Have never tried cutting balsa with my festool tracksaw LOL, but I do use this for cross-cutting balsa sheets and short ply sheets every day ...
I suppose it could be modded with a longer rail for strip
Neil
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Re: Table saw?
That is the bigger one with more features, like a tilting table for chamfered cuts, not cheap when you buy new! I am happy with the small one.....Igull wrote: ↑14 Feb 2019, 17:04 Ditto on the Proxxon, I picked up a broken one for £20 years ago (had been dropped and the pcb cracked - easy fix) ...
https://www.proxxon.com/en/micromot/27070.php
I like your cross-cutter
Max.
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Re: Table saw?
Ah, thanks chaps. I was considering the Proxxon, so I think that's the me pulling the trigger on one of those then.
I tried the SLEC one twice and fired it into the bin as a bad job, then I modified a Master Airscrew one to a state where it was OK, (but still not as good as I want. Problems with the blade wandering, following the grain etc etc).
I have in stock some nice firm sheets that will make good strip wood, but I just lack the means to produce it, hence the thought of a table saw.
I normally shy away from power tools for modelling, but I can see real benefits of zipping off some stripwood as and when I want it.
I tried the SLEC one twice and fired it into the bin as a bad job, then I modified a Master Airscrew one to a state where it was OK, (but still not as good as I want. Problems with the blade wandering, following the grain etc etc).
I have in stock some nice firm sheets that will make good strip wood, but I just lack the means to produce it, hence the thought of a table saw.
I normally shy away from power tools for modelling, but I can see real benefits of zipping off some stripwood as and when I want it.