Cheap? splitter,skiver and sander

[RockyAussie]

I am so sorry you have a no suction skiver as that can wreck a lot of good and expensive leather. I had one once. Maybe consider you could make up a suction method by following my pictures here. I think you can get a pvc elbow around 65mm nb for vent pipes. A bit of playing with a heat gun should produce some results I think. Don't forget the recess for the dressing stick if you decide to try it. Run the pipe into a box where the trash goes and use a gauze like mozzie mesh to stop any getting through to a vacume pipe set up high going out of the box. Pvc fittings can normally be pushed together and removed quite easily for emptying the box. Also don't forget to take and post pics of it as many others here would appreciate it I am sure.The idea of the roller is mostly to allow better feeding without friction and no scrape marks on the glazing. This helps to stop the rolling over, as the croc skin goes in and out of the scales.The roller I made but I think you can buy something similar nowadays I'd check first. If not and you want further "how to" let me know. Is the feed roller on yours stone or a rubber? A fine stone feeder is sometimes good to lightly remove a nasty burr after sharpening. As for the splitter I would think you should be able to pick up a good 2nd hand one around 4 to 5 K and sell your other to help recoup. You can split a bit with the skiver but thankfully for bag work you probably wont need to very much. Hope this helps and let me know if you need more. Regards Brian

[RockyAussie]

Just an after thought on this. Some prolonged sharpening and the sparks produced whilst doing this means that the pvc mouth area would need some heat paint such as used on motors and stuff.

[Fat Dog Leather]

Brain, much thanks for the suggestions above. I am moving into a new shop and will definitely incorporate the vac system on the sander and vac on the skiver .... Using the high temp paint. Appreciate all your advice. Jeanne

 

[Darren Brosowski]

I sell a slightly different roller foot but nobody really buys them!

[RockyAussie]

Hi Darren,
What machines does this fit onto and how many$? I know that I have found the roller style much better behaved and less need for maintenance than the solid type of feet.

[RockyAussie]

On 17/09/2016 at 11:15 PM, Darren Brosowski said:

I sell a slightly different roller foot but nobody really buys them!

Hi Darren, I am interested in a price if you would prefer to, you could pm me. regards Brian

[Trox]

Campbell Randall sell presser and roller presser for these types of skiving machines, he has many different types. They fit mostly every machine and are bought for the feed roller witdh. Some fit 50 mm roller and other 30 mm roller width...and so on, they are not very expensive. Tor

[RockyAussie]

Thanks for that Tor, I was hoping to get one from here in Australia but as you see above "nobody really buys them" . I guess that's because of the difficulty in getting a price here. I wish there was a Campbell Randall here or at least an agent.

[Trox]

Hi, yes and I wish there was one where I'm based too (Oslo, Norway). But I'm used to buy most of my parts/tools abroad. The shipping for a foot like that is not expensive. Just ask Dan Naegle in CR to send you a list/leaflet of every presser fot/ assesories he has for these machines. He is a very nice man to deal with. And other thing you can do is to search the Ebay for a foot like that. There are Chinese presser to be found on there sometimes and most of the times they give you free shipping all over the world. The Chinese still have some kind of trade advantage/ very cheap shipping posebilities. Most of the time I buy something from them (small things) they give me free shipping. Takes a bit longer, a couple of weeks. But your not far away from them. My guess is that the foot Darren has can't be more expensive than 50 USD, probably 30. Perhaps that's why it's difficult to get the price  Send him and PM or an email.

Here is some of my pressers. This roller presser is best suited for splitting operations, double skiving. That little adjustable one is very useful for firm leather short skives.

Tor

Edited October 25, 2016 by Trox
forgot something, pic