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BF6-31 Question

Geoff Shepherd
 

I've had my '97 BF6-31 for almost two weeks now, and have been spending my
evenings cleaning up the machine and checking alignment. One thing I have
noticed is that the fence when mounted on the in-feed jointer table can not
allow use of the full width of the jointer... to hang on to the dovetail
rail it uses up a few inches of available jointing width. One solution I
heard was to not use the jointer fence at all when face-planing wide boards.
I haven't really thought about whether that would have safety risks or not.

I know there is a cast-iron "dovetail-on-dovetail" adapter piece which can
be used to extend the dovetail rails a number of inches for ripping or
jointing, but I was more impressed with the bolt-on "filler piece" available
for the 7-series combos. Unfortunately, this bolt-on piece is not available
for the 6-series, but by gosh it should be! It looks like there are even
bolt holes ready for mounting just such a thing.

Has anyone found a solution to this? Maybe having a machine shop mill a
table extension just for this? If there was enough interest, maybe we could
get several in the group together for a larger discounted order from a shop,
or perhaps we could convince Felder to come out with this accessory for our
machines. I'm assuming such an extension would not interfere with anything
when tilting the tables up for planing... but maybe I've overlooked
something.

Thoughts, anyone?

--
..Geoff
Paul Jordan
 

Geoff

My old Robland X31 had this same issue. I just face jointed without the
fence. For stock that's near the max cutter width you just need to make
sure you don't "wander off the table" while you feed, but in practice this
was never a problem - it's alot easier than you'd imagine, and I face
jointed plenty of near 12" boards. Use the guard as well.

P.

----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Shepherd <geoff@...>
To: <felder-woodworking@...>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: [felder-woodworking] BF6-31 Question


I've had my '97 BF6-31 for almost two weeks now, and have been spending my
evenings cleaning up the machine and checking alignment. One thing I have
noticed is that the fence when mounted on the in-feed jointer table can
not
allow use of the full width of the jointer
Seth Honeyman
 

Geoff,

I am a brand new BF6-31 owner and the jointer/planer was the first function
I used. I had some pretty wide boards to face joint and I just did without
the fence. After one small opening error, I had no problem at all doing the
jointing. (Red-faced admission here - the first time I tried it, I had the
function set to mortising instead of planing/jointing - does not work big
time!)

Regards - Seth

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Jordan <jordanpaul@...>
To: <felder-woodworking@...>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 9:28 AM
Subject: [felder-woodworking] Re: BF6-31 Question


Geoff

My old Robland X31 had this same issue. I just face jointed without the
fence. For stock that's near the max cutter width you just need to make
sure you don't "wander off the table" while you feed, but in practice this
was never a problem - it's alot easier than you'd imagine, and I face
jointed plenty of near 12" boards. Use the guard as well.

P.

----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Shepherd <geoff@...>
To: <felder-woodworking@...>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: [felder-woodworking] BF6-31 Question


I've had my '97 BF6-31 for almost two weeks now, and have been spending
my
evenings cleaning up the machine and checking alignment. One thing I
have
noticed is that the fence when mounted on the in-feed jointer table can
not
allow use of the full width of the jointer

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Charlie Norton
 

Hey! I made the same mistake, only I compounded my embarrassment by calling
Felder and reported that the planer arbor was spinning backward!
Fortunately, they contained their laughter long enough to politely suggest
that the switch might be in the wrong position.

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Honeyman <sdhoneyman@...>
To: felder-woodworking@... <felder-woodworking@...>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 8:11 AM
Subject: [felder-woodworking] Re: BF6-31 Question


Geoff,

I am a brand new BF6-31 owner and the jointer/planer was the first function
I used. I had some pretty wide boards to face joint and I just did without
the fence. After one small opening error, I had no problem at all doing
the
jointing. (Red-faced admission here - the first time I tried it, I had the
function set to mortising instead of planing/jointing - does not work big
time!)

Regards - Seth

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Jordan <jordanpaul@...>
To: <felder-woodworking@...>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 9:28 AM
Subject: [felder-woodworking] Re: BF6-31 Question


Geoff

My old Robland X31 had this same issue. I just face jointed without the
fence. For stock that's near the max cutter width you just need to make
sure you don't "wander off the table" while you feed, but in practice
this
was never a problem - it's alot easier than you'd imagine, and I face
jointed plenty of near 12" boards. Use the guard as well.

P.

----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Shepherd <geoff@...>
To: <felder-woodworking@...>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: [felder-woodworking] BF6-31 Question


I've had my '97 BF6-31 for almost two weeks now, and have been spending
my
evenings cleaning up the machine and checking alignment. One thing I
have
noticed is that the fence when mounted on the in-feed jointer table can
not
allow use of the full width of the jointer

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I have the cast iron extension that I've used to mount the fence for
surfacing wide boards. You're right, you can do it without the fence, but I
like the safety aspect of using the fence. I only takes a couple seconds to
mount the extension.

An interesting sidelight on the extension. It has two scales on it, a metric
scale and one that looks as if it may be an inch scale, but it's not. I
don't know what it's supposed to be. If it was supposed to be an inch scale
they really screwed up. I first noticed it when I was ripping a 4 x 8 sheet
of plywood and put the extension on so I could mount the fence off the side
of the planer outfeed table. I was using the inch scale, and after sawing my
dimension was off. When I checked the scale on the extension with my tape
measure the metric scales lined up, but the inch was way off.

Larry Johnson
Geoff Shepherd
 

Thanks to Paul, Seth, and Charlie for input on my "to fence or not to fence"
question for wide jointing on the BF6-31. I tried surface planing a 12" wide
board today without the fence with excellent results and felt perfectly safe
(using the bridge-guard and two push-blocks). Wander wasn't a problem as
long as I proceeded with caution. So, I guess it's pretty much a non-issue!

..Geoff

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