Doug, would your design objective make it feasible to make that cutter foot operated with a return spring?
Closest thing I can find with a short search is a foot operated grommet press. http://navyaviation.tpub.com/14218/css/14218_230.htm Jason On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Paul and Colleagues, > > I managed to get back to the job quicker than I thought possible, thanks > to the awful weather we are experiencing at the moment. > > A redesign of the side plates from open jaws to hole (2.5") now provides a > fully supported disc blade that can only slide past the cutting edges > without touching. This gives a really clean cut as you can see in the > photos. The stick is a poplar pole with a maximum diameter at the cut of > 1.3/8", so a useful size that can handle most forms of small round biomass. > For my own purposes, I will be cutting as many differing species during > this Summer as I can find, as I am studying these fuels in the gasifier to > establish how the char evolution differ. > > I will write up some comments and do a drawing for the Fluidyne Archive, > and you can take it or leave it as the needs determine. > > Hope this helps. > > Doug Williams, > Fluidyne. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ > >
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