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Originally Posted by John McKenzie
" Ramps" are NOT used on spindle moulders to feed the work on and off the cutter ....This is a tool for use on a Router application .
Wood work machinery can be very dangerous . If you dont know what you are doing , and , MOST essencially , PLAN AHEAD the cutting opperation FULLY , an accident will be inevitable .
And may you have as many fingers at the end of the job , as when you started !  |
Hi John and Bryan,
Thank you very much for the additional information John. I was actually thinking this through and was about to say the same thing. Ramps would work for a router but not for a spindle moulder. Serious wood working machines are extremely dangerous, especially the large ones such as spindle moulders, jointers, thicknessers (can throw timber back at you - I had a piece of timber embed itself into the workshop door in one of the Department of Defence work shops)
and the ones which make me cringe the most - large rip saws. You have to think about what you are doing every step of the way. The two machinists I worked with were both missing fingers - Brett lost his little finger and Ray lost his thumb. One of the guys at Tech College, although not a wood machinist lost all four fingers at the second knuckle as an apprentice on a table saw. As John said, please please please be very careful and I sincerely hope that your finger count is the same at the end of the job as it was when you started! Even the humble router can be dangerous, although not as dangerous as a spindle moulder.
Regards,
David.