On 27 February 2011 23:42, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > I made up a wooden jig to mount the dull blades from my Delta JT360 6" > jointer into the tiltable vice on may milling machines table.
Have you considered making your own blades? Either from HSS (parting tool blanks?) or possibly even from gauge plate? O1 tool steel is inexpensive and seems to work perfectly well for hand tools. I am unconvinced by carbide for wide planers, especially with tough woods like knotty oak. There is a tendency for the blades to crack, and then they are useless. My dad's 6" jointer has planed something like 500 cubic feet of oak to make a set of 10 panelled doors, a panelled partition, two staircases and a balcony with only one set of HSS blades. We do have a universal grinder (with coolant and a 12" pink wheel) for sharpening though. (Thinking about it, it has also helped convert a couple of 8" x 8" pitch-pine joists into 8 vertically sliding sash window frames and a couple of old mahogany packing cases into garage doors too) I think that carbide for wood only makes sense in the context of disposable cutters. If you can re-grind then HSS blades suffer far fewer catastrophic failures. -- atp "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
