Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

Hi All, Just want to inform everyone about something my uncle has made for us. It is basicaly a 10mm shank tool collet for anyone using a 5, 8, 10, 20, 32, or 40 mm tool with a 10mm shank and set screw. The only alternative that I've found is a tool holder specificaly made for this which cost about ...

Dave, We are using a Southeastern tool 3/8 comp cutter and pay about 38$ to 40$. Cutter speed 18000rpm at 600 to 700 ipm. Nick is right about it wearing in one place just a small notch where the melamine surface is. You can however continue to use the bit for plywood or mdf for a short time. Brian i...

Mike, I definitly agree with the slow pay of big home improvement stores. I personaly am not looking into working for them althought it may be someone elses perogative. But this could apply to the guy down the street who has a design center and wants to offer something more unique and keep the money...

Mike, I think there would need to be a limit to what the client can get from the software. For example we only give out pretty pictures unless the client wants to pay for complete drawings. This limits the amount of job theft. Each clients version could have a code that will send the full file to th...

Dave,

Very sorry for the delay. I'm not sure why its not working for you but tommorow I'll give it a look. Are you using a wasteboard? If so how often are
you flycutting your spoilboard? We only flycut once a year.


Forrest

Ed, Wow, I hope you're not losing sleep over this. One thing at a time. I don't think any of Thermwoods routers for cabinet shops cost any less than 75 or 80K so I'm not sure where the 10K came from. You have considered that this business will take time (alot) from your contracting. Do you have that...

Hey Thom, Since this is an ongoing conversation I thought to point out a few advantages to full thickness dado's for fixed shelves. 1. You can band either side. 2. You can place either way. 3. You only have one setting to change in parameters. 4. You will have 2 less operations (to cut tenon thickne...

Brian,

I just upgraded to bobart x pro and got the dxf's carvings with it. Hopefully this weekend I'll do some for myself. The carvings look pretty cool for the most part. Some thing for everyone, over 6000 to choose from.

Forrest

Thom,

The absolute easiest way to avoid this is use a full thickness dado. Simply choose blind dado the in dado parameters set tenon thickness to 100%.

Forrest

We don't use labels anymore so no problem with them sticking. We just write the cab number on the part and our assemblers know where they belong. If this is not an alternative for you we also had a vavumn line that Y'd off the main line over the center of the table and had a flexible hose with wand ...

Thom, And anyone else who can use this info we have found it faster and easier to write the cab number on the parts instead of using labels. Does anyone else do this? You can print barcode labels only which are fine for flipops. This works if your guys don't require alot of additional part info. For...

Dave, I think 18HP is fine for a 4x8 we have a 40HP for a 5x12 with 2 ports. I don't see where the benafit of removing the gasket is. Our gasket is mashed flat anyway. I'm glad that the flycut program works for you however I did notice that its not the spiral in program that works best so I'll repos...

Hi Bill, This is one of the flycut programs that we use on our Thermwood 40. We drew the program in BobcadCam but the Startup Post and end I borrowed from my CV Post. After the initial daylight set up if you use this program to flycut your spoilboard you can adjust the daylight value by the amount o...

Hi All, Are you cutting plywood when this occures? Plywood is usually where we have this problem because the ply never sits completely flat allowing the wasteboard to float up under the material. If your waste board cups up on the edge then flip it when you flycut, don't worry about the grooves in t...

Brian,

No I haven't and I'm not set up as yet but maybe soon. We build alot of mantels and it would be nice to do some carvings on them.

Forrest