909, 600W Dowel Joiner

[WillyInBris]

I have never brought a GMC tool and now they are gone I thought the same for the 909 tools at masters.

But today i had a moment of bloody weekness they had a thing on the shelf called a Dowel Joiner I looked it over I thought na then took the little family to mcdonalds for lunch (yep big spender) then thought what the hell it may actually work and i can always bring it back if i have issues, dowels are something that i have always had problems with they do my head in so I grabbed it and chucked it into the trolley with my son.

$200 later

So I get home and have a play well I can say I was quite blown away it actually works you need to put some force behind it but it cuts dowel holes but I didnt realise is that its makes 10mm holes lol crap me they are bloody huge.

Anyway I think with a bit of work and modding stops etc a clean up from the moulding and swap some of the locking knobs with cap head screws and this could be a good little tool, it isnt a festool never will be but I can only dream of one of those units.

One of things i would like to ask is the dowel cutters are Brad point 10mm with a 8 mm shank about 57mm long I have done a bit of a search and cant find many besides some at CT 5mm and 8mm anyone aware of any others I will call CT tomorrow see if they have them but I am seriously doubting they will have them in stock even though they have them on their website.

A couple of brochure pics and as I said not a bad unit and can be made better with a few mods I am sure.

[specialist]

Take one into Brisbane saw service, I think they are in Virginia. They have always been able to help me with obscure requests.


Robert

[Superbunny]

Looks just like the Triton one I got over a year ago. Your right you do have to push hard to make it work, I thought it might be because the drills are not that sharp. I to was wondering if you could get replacements for them as I don't know what to do when they need replacing. At least I now know some one else is making the same machine. They work great otherwise.

SB

[VEK TOOLS]

It's probably the same as the triton one as gmc moved some models into the triton range when they owned it, try your local carbitool distributor as they do some cutters that might fit, other company you might want to try up there is carbatec

[WillyInBris]

Looks just like the Triton one I got over a year ago. Your right you do have to push hard to make it work, I thought it might be because the drills are not that sharp. I to was wondering if you could get replacements for them as I don't know what to do when they need replacing. At least I now know some one else is making the same machine. They work great otherwise.

SB

Yep looked at the pics on the Triton website they arethe same machine just different colour lol same guy in the pics as well, the triton site says it comes with different size bits 6mm 8mm 10mm so you didn't get any besides the 10mm ?

Who did you buy it from maybe they stock or can order bits?

It's probably the same as the triton one as gmc moved some models into the triton range when they owned it, try your local carbitool distributor as they do some cutters that might fit, other company you might want to try up there is carbatec

Sent an email to CT wont hold my breath though.
i will send an email through to carbitool if I dont get a reply by the end of day.

[vk4]

The tool is amodified biscuit cutter.

The issue with the DRILL BITS is the Sharpening, looking at the pic's the Flutes have been reground and have a flat behind the cutting edge, his means that with out any relief behind the edge you have to force the tool.

I would relieve the drill edge slightly , and touch the edge up slightly as well, do not make the angle too aggressive.

Jeff
vk4

[rwbuild]

Had a look at Masters site today out of curiosity.

Have a close look at the 909 thicknesser , the motor is GMC.............hmmm

Did Woolies get the rights to GMC and rename it.......I wonder

[LGS]

This may be a silly suggestion, but if you need 8mm shanks, could you not use spiral upcut router bits with an 8mm shank? Festool make them, as do Leigh. The Festool ones are comparable in price to CMT and are readily available. Have a look at the consumables for the routers at the Festool web site. The Leigh ones should be available through CT

Regards,

Rob

[KorDes]

I bought one of those a few years ago. They were on special because bunnings wanted them gone. Found out one side drilled slightly bigger holes than the other side, making the dowels sloppy in the hole. The drill bits were crap, they started smoking and was real hard to plunge into the wood. The ends looked like they were burnt. Ended up flicking it off on trademe. What a waste of money.