Heads up on a Teck shredder

[forumdotabaco]

The aluminium has sufficient strength for this but my machine as been built about 80 years ago in Germany with scrap aluminium but I don't want to think much about that, because its also hand made and assembled and does contain part markers, parts seam equal but because they had been assembled by hand they aren't and if you assembled the in a different order the machine will have will have clearances, bumps etc, about the fingers you only have to protect them from the smash rollers and that guard is good, the blades have auto sharpening i can post you here some terrible videos I've made with my phone

 

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[leverhead]

...the blades have auto sharpening...

How do they accomplish that? The videos are good.

 

[forumdotabaco]

hi every time the wheel slides, they scrape a metal part that is attached to the machine body, I will try to find a good pick of that

 

[Matty]

I've never seen a Tek 2 before. Now I want one lol

 

[forumdotabaco]

there's 3 better models with another names
this one more recent
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Pascher-Traf...schneider-Tabakschneidemaschine-/161271047258
http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewtopic.php?f=235&t=2549

and this one http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewtopic.php?f=236&t=2506

the one in trying to find http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewtopic.php?f=236&t=2488

anyway before i brought mine I tried to understand first the technology development and it started with this ones http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewtopic.php?f=236&t=2466 2 cylinders cutter then went to the blades from 1 to 4 blades
and them went to guillotine and stooped there so the best way to go is to try to find guillotine based cutters, but another pertinent data is that hand cranked machines are slow it took me 8 hours to cut 12 pounds of tobacco my advise would be to go electrical like industrial cutters are, based in guillotine but powered by electricity

here you can check a lot of them http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewforum.php?f=174

and here brand new models of outdated technologies lol http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewforum.php?f=175

 

[forumdotabaco]

the picks to leverhead

 

[Matty]

Wow...! I never seen any of those cutters before. I'm overwhelmed, guess I got a "thing" for tobacco cutters lol. I only have a Teck 1, works just fine for me. I think it was Leverhead who made himself a cutter using the tube principle kinda like one of the old models you linked to.

 

[forumdotabaco]

Me to, but the problem is always the same money! if I had enough I would by myself a collection
take a look in this one http://www.forumdotabaco.com/viewtopic.php?f=236&t=2489 (you should click the picks that will drive you a photo bucket gallery) it was cheap but I wouldn't use something like that because is to old and pretty to use, but if you like this kind of stuff check also these links http://antiguedadesmecanicas.com/
http://iakarouler.fred.pagesperso-orange.fr/accueil_022.htm

what about the Tek what kind of cut do you get in mm?

 

[Matty]

My Teck 1 does a 1mm cut. Works good for me. Dang, that's a lot of old rollers too. I saw a lot of those on youtube. Maybe start a new thread for all the links to these lovely machines.

 

[leverhead]

I'd be pretty happy with cutting 12 lbs in 8 hours!

forumdotabaco, Thank you for the pictures! I guess I'm not the only one with a soft spot for machinery, that's quite a collection of images.

I still prefer to cut my tobacco with a blade, even if it is more work. Here's a you tube link to my cutter, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40vJOFTlqw&feature=youtu.be

 

[forumdotabaco]

1mm is more the kind of cut to use for tubs I am an hand roller so I had to look for 0.3mm, 1mm become more unstable at the paper, about the machines is all about engineering and technology evolution, I like that, the blade system you have just needs some type of engine and will become almost an industrial machine, that's pretty much how they do it now

 

[forumdotabaco]

new model on ebay.de http://www.ebay.de/itm/Tabakschneidemaschine-Tabakschneider-Tabak-Jugendstil-MASCHINE-/111324009279