[Gasification] Mk2 Chip Guillotine

[Jason]

Doug,

would your design objective make it feasible to make that cutter foot
operated with a return spring?

Closest thing I can find with a short search is a foot operated grommet
press. http://navyaviation.tpub.com/14218/css/14218_230.htm

Jason


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Doug <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

>
> Hi Paul and Colleagues,
>
> I managed to get back to the job quicker than I thought possible, thanks
> to the awful weather we are experiencing at the moment.
>
> A redesign of the side plates from open jaws to hole (2.5") now provides a
> fully supported disc blade that can only slide past the cutting edges
> without touching. This gives a really clean cut as you can see in the
> photos. The stick is a poplar pole with a maximum diameter at the cut of
> 1.3/8", so a useful size that can handle most forms of small round biomass.
> For my own purposes, I will be cutting as many differing  species during
> this Summer as I can find, as I am studying these fuels in the gasifier to
> establish how the char evolution differ.
>
> I will write up some comments and do a drawing for the Fluidyne Archive,
> and you can take it or leave it as the needs determine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Doug Williams,
> Fluidyne.
>
>
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