Did you happen to notice the giant adds for one of Delta’s shapers a year or two ago? The slots in the bed were going perpendicular to the fence! I actually saw one of these shapers on a job prior to seeing the add, and inspected it very carefully, figuring that whoever owned it had assembled it incorrectly. I was wrong.
So basically, that shaper was very nearly useless for all practical purposes.
Does anyone in corporate america know what their products are used for, and how they are used?
I would love to read Delta’s directions on how to run door rail copes through that machine. Or have their CEO explain to me the reason why they designed it that way.
Perhaps it was really a 3hp, 800 lb stripped down biscuit machine or perhaps a plunge shaper.
Any ideas?
Clampman
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The top is drilled and tapped so that you can run the fence either way to the slot by moving the mounting studs.
Hi Dave,
I checked out that shaper pretty closely and saw no tapped holes to change orientation of the fence. Even it it did have one, however, what sense does it make to advertise and ship out shapers put together such that they are useless.
That's like shipping biscuit jointers or saws with the blades in backwards.
Clampman
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