Santa visited my shop today

Gus Dering said:

We love this machine. All our banding has been getting done on a Brandt. Thats all they make is banders and that says something to me. It has all the right stuff, in a nutshell.

We don't mess with 3 mill tape.

The local rep is a Stiles distributor, yes Stiles

I am more jazzed about this than I was for the cnc.:thumbsup:

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Really? That should wear off in a few weeks :laughing:

A few tips for your new baby (ignore the ones you already know)

Dust extraction is more critical on edgebanders than any other machine I have used. PVC trimmings get everywhere and can mess with your set-ups. Try to have your operator blow out under the hood before,during and after use.

You machine will use insert tooling for the profile motors and make sure it is changed as soon as it starts to fade. Dull tooling will kill the motors quite quickly. Rebuilds are $600-1500 depending on where you get them.

Glue pot rebuilds are also big $$ so don't let it get too full of burnt glue. I would recommend changing the glue about once every few months depending on usage. You can do this by putting a clean piece of wood into the gluepot (3/4 x2 x12) when it is hot and you are done using it. (try to keep it at least half full before you do this)Allow the glue to cool.The next time you use it let the glue pot heater warm up enough to pull the stick out. It will come out like a big nasty glue popsicle. Refill and go.

Glue pots should also be boiled out with peanut oil every so often to give them a really good cleaning. The reason being is that a dirty gluepot puts a lot of stress on the the heating element and can cause premature failure.

There are many types of glue pellets out there but I would recommend a German brand named Jowat. Think of it as Festool glue for edgebanders.

I can't really tell from the pic but it looks like your machine will have a bottom drive track with idler wheels on top.Make sure you take the idler wheels off and lubricate them every so often. I have seen them dry out and lock up which will jam the work piece and cause all of your track pads on the drive track to be scalped off. Huge PITA

I have quite a few more tips for you but I feel like I am rambling. Just let me know if you have any ???

Thanks for all your tips, Bergy:thumbsup:
You ever work with a bander before?:laughing:

My partner ,Wayne, will be the bander boy. Not that I don't want to know all there is to know about it, I will immerse myself into it like all the tools and equipment. But we feel a bander should only be a one man woman and he has 20 years with them. I have none.

the reason i am more pumped for this than the cnc is that it was and is me that make that machine go. At the time I was switching over to Cabinet vision and taking on the machine all at one time. I needed to make it happen and the pressure I put on myself was pretty intense. I loved what the machine could do but getting there was not all of that easy for me. You could say the stress of the moment sucked some of the fun out of it.

This machine is just a candy bar for me. Wayne will do a great job with it and I'll go along for the ride. I like going for joy rides.:clap:

I love that you know so much and I'll use you when something comes up. I like the grease and glue tips. Thanks for all of it.:thumbsup:

Congrats, you are going to love that machine.

This is ours, it gets used constantly, and other shops even come over and use it when they have a big edge banding job.

We had an employee feed the machine before the first piece was done, without realizing it, it made all sorts of expensive noises, and started shooting the roller pads off until he finally hit the emergeny stop. That wasnt a cheap mistake...

We had some fun today.









There is a picture so it does exist.:whistling