Power feeds

[jfc]

Has anyone got any links or advice on a good power feed ? I can only see the Axminster ones

[Stree]

Try Scott and Sargent. Useful site to know

[cuttingsolutions]

Get back to you tomorrow Jason. I'm sure I know a man who can
Are you looking for a heavy duty item?
You will of course be aware that the power feed doesnt get away from need to use tools conforming with EN847 regs.
CS

[Stree]

Or you could try these people.
www.blythmachinery.co.uk/products/PO2032

[davyowen]

Felder do a few:

mk.felder-gruppe.at/?page=shop_node&node=353

[woodworker]

The best pro power feeders are the Maggi Steff, made in Italy.
Prices vary depending on which size you want, Extremely reliable,
quiet, spares easy to obtain, been around for years.

They do them in 4 speed and 8 speed etc, plus vario electronic speed but then they start getting serious money, all have forward & reverse,

Just make sure your table is capable of taking one, they are blo@dy heavy.

You'll wonder how you ever managed without one .

Word on the street is the Felders are badged ...guess who's....

[cuttingsolutions]

The person I know has asked the following questions...

3 or 4 wheel

4 or 8 speed.

Apparently the rest is all fairly similar.

[jfc]

4 wheel 4 speed i spose . The one i have is three wheel one speed but it has reverse that is handy .

[cuttingsolutions]

Jason
From my contact....i don't know a lot of technical detail but can find out.
This is a maggi unit which seems to be known on the forum. three wheel, 4 speed, with reverse.... suitable for T110 or Sedgwick SM4 or Felder.....Model No 2033 and is a pro unit rather than the smaller 2032 on the Blythe site.
Bearings sealed for life.
weight 45 kgs.
I believe this is only available through the trade...
420.00 + VAT
Not sure about carriage but at cost....unless you can collect.

CS

[cuttingsolutions]

advice given on positioning....
for the three wheel the centre of the spindle should be between the first and second wheels.....provided by a friend who runs a company giving that sort of advice.....but free here

[woodworker]

jfc said:

4 wheel 4 speed i spose . The one i have is three wheel one speed but it has reverse that is handy .

A 4 wheel is a big machine . and at around £600 ish + vat and weighs a whopping 67Kg, can your table take this weight ?.

The Maggi Steff's I mentioned in my post above for the 3 wheel 4 speed you can get them trade at around the £380 + vat mark. there was on offer on them last year at most suppliers for £320 + vat with spare set of wheels (excellent value), there might be some still kicking around.

They're is the usual Chinese/Taiwanese etc clones doing the rounds at some suppliers as the patent & copyright on these ran out years ago.
And most manufacturers have not tried to reinvent the wheel so to speak. So the design has changed very little (if it aint broke don't fix it . a bit like the Sedgwick morticer, bullet proof.


Hope this helps

[jfc]

Dom calls a power feed a wheelie thing ;D

[woodworker]

jfc said:

Dom calls a power feed a wheelie thing ;D

;D ;D ;D

Yea, he's right.

[dom]

jfc said:

Dom calls a power feed a wheelie thing ;D

Is nothing confidential ?
Sometimes the memory fails, but the rest is working fine.
You will pay Jason ;D

[Alf]

dom said:

Sometimes the memory fails, but the rest is working fine.

Presumably as far as you can remember... ;D

[dom]

Oh, very good Al ;D ;D ;D

[Scrit]

To belatedly throw my two happorth into the fray here's a few factoids......

The original power feeders were designed for use on spindle moulders and were mechanically driven from the top of the spindle. These units, called "Tempo Feeders" and were the brain child of one Arthur Brundler, a Swiss, back in the 1940s. He subsequently developed an electrically driven version, the "Electro-Tempo" and this was patented in 1949 (for those interested the British Patent No. is 632253). He licensed both JKO in High Wycombe (from 1947) and Holz-Her in Germany (from 1954) to manufacture the units and JKO actually built over 2,000 of them, although they began to import the Holz-Her units sometime before the patent expiring in 1960. After the patent expired others jumped in, most notably Elu and Festool (who incidenrtally in those days also made a full range of static woodworking machines - I threw that in for the collectors ;D)

You'll often find the Holz-Her machines on Wadkin machines as Bursgreen badged many of the 3-wheel 8-speed jobbies "BLG-8" and sold them as Wadkins.....

As to more wheels, well the Italian firm of Multiwood (now better known for CNC routers) and another Italian firm called Univers did make feeder with up to 6 wheels. 4-wheel machines are generally sold for heavy spindle work where bi-directional feed (climb-milling) is required whilst the six wheel beasties are designed for use on horizontal belt sanders such as the Volpato I used to have. Another use of multi-wheel machines, when used in conjunction with a caterpillar belt over the wheels is to feed very short pieces:

For sheer ingenuity, though, it's hats off the the Taiwanese firm of Comatic. They've come up with horizontal feeders to convert band saws into power band resaws, one-wheeled jobbies for ring fence work and a whole slew of different feeder ideas including models specifically for rip sawing, use on jointers, etc. Take a look at their site and (if it doesn't frustrate the hell out of you) you'll see what I mean (and yes, they manufacture for Jet, etc). I've had the band saw feeder in the past - it worked well and was reliable over a 5 year period

Scrit