Brad Shipton
06-16-2009, 7:15 PM
Some time ago I started dealing with Felder and Byrd to get a Shellix for my A3-31. I decided to change out the head since I have been working with a lot of Jatoba and I found too much tearout with the original head. Dont get me wrong, the stock head is great for most woods, but after getting the Jatoba test samples back from a shellix equipped machine I decided this was worth a try. If it were not for my space limitation I would have probably simply added a separate planer with a shellix or a larger cutter block.
The process to get the technical specs from Felder was very easy once the confidentiality agreement was signed by all parties. After that, along with a bit of back and forth between my Byrd rep and I, I had a shop drawing to sign off on.
Taking the cutterblock out is not a great deal of fun just like the Felder Tech in DE told me and I can only imagine the hours I will spend yet getting this all running properly again. I hope it is worth it in the end.
The new Byrd cutterblock arrived on Monday and I had a machine shop remove the old cutterblock and install the new one. It turned out they had to machine a few small tools to aid them to press things out properly.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Brad805/Shop/DSC02251-creekers.jpg
More as the project continues.
The process to get the technical specs from Felder was very easy once the confidentiality agreement was signed by all parties. After that, along with a bit of back and forth between my Byrd rep and I, I had a shop drawing to sign off on.
Taking the cutterblock out is not a great deal of fun just like the Felder Tech in DE told me and I can only imagine the hours I will spend yet getting this all running properly again. I hope it is worth it in the end.
The new Byrd cutterblock arrived on Monday and I had a machine shop remove the old cutterblock and install the new one. It turned out they had to machine a few small tools to aid them to press things out properly.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Brad805/Shop/DSC02251-creekers.jpg
More as the project continues.