Heiz T-1000, early impressions.

[pcstru]

The photos were taken with a fairly wide angle (17-40mm) lens which tends to do weird things to (apparent) scale on the wide side - although the machine is fairly compact. The piece of MDF you can see on the bed is 915mmx620mm, cutting area is as the spec - 1000mmx580mm. I took a hefty plunge into a bit of oak at the weekend after I made an mistake between vcarve and the controller software. The router stalled and the machine motors stalled before I hit the kill switch. Everything seems fine though, which, given that these things happen is ... good. I'm dreading the day I plunge into the Alu T slot planks.

'sculptural shapes' in thick hardwood, well say no more squire - nudge nudge, wink wink. Got any photo's!

Given you are in MK - do you happen to know of any decent timber suppliers locally? I'm after good quality marine plywood for clock gears and some nice misc pieces of quality hardwoods for frames, ornamental boxes and the inevitable house sign requests?

[Davem]

I am interested in your 'deep plunge' problem. What did it take to stall your 600watt Bosch (albeit into oak) and then stall the axis steppers too? Can I ask what size/type cutter you were using? One wonders if the Kress would stall under such conditions too.
Definitely something you would not want to do a bit deeper and take out the T-slot bed planks - well not at £340 a pop! ( I thought that Heiz were a bit expensive on this component so I checked out alternative suppliers but they were suprisingly close on costs - although they did offer a slightly thicker 20mm deep plank).
Re. wood suppliers. I'm afraid I don't know any but my neighbour is also into deeply curved wooden forms - but of the more regular variety - (he turns bowls!) I'll ask him where he gets his wood from. Incidentally we both have the excellent 12" throat Elektra Beckum (German again) bandsaws for cutting and preparing blanks. Both bought from Bedford Saw who are good for woodworking machinery, blades etc. - but you propbably already know of them.

Bye for now

Davem

[Davem]

Pcstru, a couple of weeks ago, you asked about 'decent' timber suppliers. One recommended company is :

DW Mouldings
56-58 Sunderland Road
Sandy
Beds
SG19 1QY www.dwmouldings.co.uk

They do selected hardwoods rather than marine ply - worth ringing their Production Manager - Brian Dawes to see what they have in stock.

My other neighbour (who does wood turning) gets his blanks from :

Bedford Saw and Tool Co
Ampthill Road
Bedford MK42 Tel: 01234 217417

They obviously do square and hex blanks for turning in plain and figured woods but might do other sizes too. Could be worth asking.

Be good to hear how you are getting on.

Davem