Awesome deep dive into supersurfacers! The mechanics of these machines with auto-return amaze me. Shooting the wood through one direction, stopping it, shifting the whole blade carriage, and finally shooting the wood back.... there's a lot going on there. Pretty awesome machines.
Only recently discovered these machines, absolutely love them! With regards to cutting fluid, I do profile grinding for moulding knives at work and we use Castrol Hyosol T15 mineral oil cutting fluid 👍 You mix 1 part oil to 20 parts water (i.e 500ml oil/10 litres water), adding the oil to the water slowly, stirring continuously
Me too! This saves some time on big stuff and kumiko for Shoji is faster than the sizing planes. But it’s forced me to focus my development on wide panels
Thanks for the video! I have a similar machine from Marunaka - Super Meca! Unfortunately, I do not have an instruction manual. The factory does not respond to emails. Your video closed some of the questions. Thank you very much and good luck in your work
The replacement blade from Kanefusa has an interesting unusual cutting edge. Have you measured what kind of resource the knife has? I mean: running meters on a certain wood
Nah great question. So far with sharp blades and a good set up with the chip breaker it seems fine, generally I do consider the direction and might only run things one way if flat sawn grain. But if it’s mostly VG I orient it so the reverse, finishing pass is into falling grain to reduce possibility of tear out.
Great video! I just purchased a Hitachi small bench top super surfacer 180 mm blade and there is manual so you video is a great help for me in setting up the machine. What is the rubber renewer you are using on the belt?
I think I got it off Amazon, it’s called that, rubber renew, it’s for like printing press rollers I think, it softens old rubber, seems to work, smells like it causes cancer
And another question! It so happened that I lost the adjustment of the position of the front roller of the end sensor relative to the conveyor. Experimentally we managed to catch the setting, but I’m not sure what’s right. The instructions contain a description of this adjustment! Thank you
Really interesting video. For the rough pass, is the chip breaker set correctly? I though the shaving would be limp if it was set close enough to the cutting edge. Well, maybe that's only for thin shavings. I'm chuckling about the quality of wood that I've used for projects. Most boards I've worked with don't want to be rough planed against the grain. It seems like there's a assumption of super high quality wood built into this machine. Looking forward to upcoming projects!
Yeah I hope to fiddle with it more and thin down the shaving as far as “rough” goes I think it more means like initial pass. You could imagine the first and second shavings remove the mill marks from power planner, and the finish pass as a fully smooth cut.
The shop I work at has a simpler Marunaka that probably hasn’t been used since our last Ellison project 😂. Would be curious to know what shop yours came from.
it was first brought to a shop in Lodi - to lessen Joinery structures workload - to build and surface the shoji for the guest house. @@Neverstopbuilding
Warning! When you use the machine suck away all the cutting liquid vapors made from the grinding or your lungs will get allergic to any kind of dusts. Buddy of mine worked with such machines and has for years now a very bad health because of the cutting liquid vapors. They kind of knew it but dint do anything to avoid it. Bye bye lung-health.
