Baby chipper won’t chip!…Fixed!
- Thread starter ClimbingTN
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ClimbingTN
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22 hrs. That’s what’s so frustrating and I haven’t been able to use it in several weeks. I’m going to work on it next week.
southsoundtree
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Can you flip the knives, set the anvil, and then start small in branch diameter and work up in size? See if they should be installed the other way.
ClimbingTN
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I did and it’s violent for lack of a better word. Very aggressive with blades flipped. It is very noisy and jumping around. It pulls stuff in at high speed…kinda scary.
ClimbingTN
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Fixed. I meant to comment in last post. I put new blades, anvil and reset gap between. .8-1mm as explained in a powerking manual. Seemed to be same machine. The machine chips like new again. IDK why but the new blades are at 30 degrees and I sharpened the old ones to 34 degrees. Now that I have results, I’m going to sharpen the old blades and try them again. I’m also going to systematically troubleshoot to figure out the problem. Thanks to the many comments and suggestions. Craig
Might be very sensitive to relief angle. More relief = more cut ("violent") and 4 deg extra might be enough to make the difference. Classic example is twist drills regular sharpened feed just about right in steel and aluminum but turn into self tapping screws in brass - an almost 90 deg cut face tames them down in brass.
presume you're going to try old blades at 30 deg
also the 0.5 to 1 mm dictates the bite size, maybe less of a factor(?)
presume you're going to try old blades at 30 deg
also the 0.5 to 1 mm dictates the bite size, maybe less of a factor(?)
