rudy de haas
06-28-2015, 10:23 AM
I bought the cutter set shown in the photo at a garage sale yesterday - actually very sad: the guy they belonged to had a stroke and now his wife is selling off his tools. I did get a chance to speak to him and he seemed ok, but beyond saying thanks for the nice set of pipe clamps I got, there wasn't much to say and certainly nothing I could do for him.
Since I don't think he owned a shaper this may have been part of a kit he used on his radial arm saw - the one at the sale had the ability to use this type of moulding tool.
The set contains eight triplets of steel blades with no obvious wear, some in patterns I know I can use. It's a 3/4" bore and obviously solid steel. However.. the dark scrubbed area in the picture is the result of my attempts to clean it so I could read the max RPM statement. Turned out to be just printed on (assuming it was there to begin with, the only readable marks seemed to say "00"), and the ink came off with the dirt etc. My guess is that this was rated to 5,200 RPM but the thing was unreadable and so my first question is: anyone know what this is rated for? and, second: if it is 5,200 and I spin it at my lowest speed (7,000) what's going to happen?
Since I don't think he owned a shaper this may have been part of a kit he used on his radial arm saw - the one at the sale had the ability to use this type of moulding tool.
The set contains eight triplets of steel blades with no obvious wear, some in patterns I know I can use. It's a 3/4" bore and obviously solid steel. However.. the dark scrubbed area in the picture is the result of my attempts to clean it so I could read the max RPM statement. Turned out to be just printed on (assuming it was there to begin with, the only readable marks seemed to say "00"), and the ink came off with the dirt etc. My guess is that this was rated to 5,200 RPM but the thing was unreadable and so my first question is: anyone know what this is rated for? and, second: if it is 5,200 and I spin it at my lowest speed (7,000) what's going to happen?