Andy Hall wrote:

Indeed I would not dream of doing it without...

(I was helping a mate prepare some oak edging for his kitchen worktops a
couple of weeks back using his Axminster thicknesser without any
collection!


That's a bad idea. Apart from the mess, I find that oak dust is
relatively irritating.

Quite agree! I kept my respirator on... At least there was not too much
to do.

I was trying to convince him that it would actually save him
time and money to get a chip collector since if nothing else you save
hours sweeping up and wading through a sea of planer shavings. It
obviously sank in, since he looked at me using the DW with collection
the other day and decided that perhaps it was a good idea after all)


I'm surprised that it would work at all without some clearance of
shavings.

On the thicknesser he has (not one of the current Axminster ones) if you
remove the collection cowel then it leaves part of the top of the cutter
block exposed and it throws chips out the back of the machine (I expect
there was a cover plate of some description that would have to have been
removed to attach the cowl in the first place). Does not help the mess
creation any, but does at least stop it clogging up too much. It also
helped that we were only working stock that was a couple of inches wide.
Had we have needed to do any quantity I would have gone and got my
collector.

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Cheers,

John.

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