Martin Wasner
01-08-2016, 8:22 AM
Anyone ever mount two powerfeeders on a single shaper before? I picked up a couple of four wheeled Steff feeders. One went on the panel raiser, the other went on the shaper I used for sticking and sizing face frame material. On the panel raiser it works flawlessly. On the sticking shaper it works well for the most part, but being that it is cocked at an angle to hold material tight to the fence, when I run narrower material, it's barely hanging onto that last wheel, and it can mush out past the wheel occasionally. The feeder is so long that I'm not running it as large of an angle as I would like to really hold stuff against the fence as well. Mostly when dealing with material that isn't flawlessly straight and keeping a consistent cut width as I use an outboard fence for this process Going with two three wheel feeders would eliminate that I would think. I'm pretty sure I could get them close enough to one another to not create too much of a gap between the last wheel of the first shaper, and the first wheel of the last shaper.
But, I don't know if there is too much discrepancy in feed rates between one feeder and the next to make that work well? I'd assume they're likely close enough though.
Thoughts?
But, I don't know if there is too much discrepancy in feed rates between one feeder and the next to make that work well? I'd assume they're likely close enough though.
Thoughts?