We recently acquired this one
http://www.deltamachinery.com/index.aspe=136&p=4746
fitted with a Maggi feeder. Ran just about $3k including shaper, mobile
base, feeder, sliding shaper jig, roller infeed/outfeed stands and several
cutters. Totally awesome combination. I've been able to mill well over 2
thousand linear feet of flooring in a days time! I don't know what you
consider a "ton" of doors, but even cutting the cope, stick and panels are
much easier with a machine that can cut them in one pass. Just my
$.02 --dave
"David F. Eisan" wrote in message
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Evening All,
I have a ton of doors to make and I didn't like the idea of hand feeding
all
that material over my router table. I have been meaning to make a new
better
router table, but I have just not got around to it, so I brought home a
power feeder from work and just bolted to my existing somewhat down and
out
router table.
The router table is the only piece of woodworking machinery that has ever
bitten me and I am leery of hand feeding boards over it. I must say that
pushing the board into the first wheel, and grabbing it from the third
wheel
was much easier on the sphincter muscle than hand feeding. Not only that,
but running at 14 ft/min gave excellent quality of cut with a set of CMT
cutters, no burning and no discernible milling marks. Not like when I was
hand feeding, little burn marks when I was moving my hands, or jiggles in
the profile. I am sold on this and wish I had bought one a long time ago.
The Delta 36-850 1/4 HP power feeder parts out of the box,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/parts.jpg
The power feeder mounted to my router table,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/ontable.jpg
A bunch of rough cut rails,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/i...ghcutparts.jpg
The rails all milled,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/milled.jpg
Runing the rails through the router table with the power feeder,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/runthrough.jpg
All the rails milled,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/milled2.jpg
These are all rough length and some multiple length, I will cut all the
rails and stiles from this stock tomorrow.
David.