• The JOB PAL is designed with heavier rolls, shafts, motor and tool bar for continuous use in a production shop. The top of the machine has lifting eyelet's for uncrating help or moving the machine around the shop building. These can also be used if the machine is to be moved to a job site. The total machine weight is approximately 600 lbs.

JOB PAL Features and Materials

• All welded body construction with few bolt ons. The long sections of the machine are 18 Ga. stainless steel type 302, which eliminates paint wear by the board and future rust. Machine ends are painted 16 Ga. C.R. Steel.

• The cutting bed is set at 31 1/2" working height. Below the bed is an open tool tray to carry the extra tooling. The inside is covered with carpeting to protect the blades. The machine width is 32 1/2" to move through a 36" door frame.

• Machine is supported on 1" steel pipe legs. The left end has two heavy 8" wheels and the right end has two 5" swivel locking casters to roll machine thru doorways at job sites. By removing the angle braces on the legs lets them fold outward under the machine for carrying or hauling to the job.

• Gear motor is by US Motor Co. The motor is 3/4 H.P. mounted on a #56 frame gearhead and can develop up to 630lbs of pull when loaded. Motor is controlled by a foot switch and the wiring includes forward and reverse switch. All electrics are 115V/1 phase.
  

  Drive Chain and motor arrangement is very compact.

  
  

• Drive Rolls (5 req.) are 14 Ga. 4" round electrical welded tubing with 1" shafts and bearing.


• Two upper rolls are sanded set with paint and resins and bites into the fiberglass to pull it thru the machine. Three lower rolls are covered with a thin coating of rubber to protect outer kraft skim foil and provide extra traction to help move board thru machine.

• On top of the roll cover on the left side of machine for operator convenience is a set up plate showing the tool arrangements for cutting one, two, four piece ducts.

• Beneath the cutting roll is a stabilizer wheel lightly toughing the roll. This helps prevent the roll from bowing when board is passing thru machine.

• To adjust the machine to different board thickness, the upper and lower parts of the machine body are spaced. The upper rolls and tool bar are moved up or down by turning the threaded spindles on each corner of the machine. See Photograph at right.

This is done with a narrow wrench furnished with the machine. First, the motor and chain are loosened, each corner is moved to proper setting and chain and motor retightened. The time required for each size change is approximately 5 to 10 minutes.

STANDARD MACHINE TOOLS

• The tools are held in place clamped in a heavy twin tool bar. The tools are "Drop-In" design and slide easily for quick measurement settings.

• The cutting blades are heat treated for wearing hardness and plated with bright zinc. Blade life is reported by operators to be at approximately 150,000 sq.ft. or more.