Leadermac Thundermac Moulder Series

LEADERMAC | Thundermac Moulder Series

A heavy duty, jointed, high speed moulder designed for the production of flooring, finished mouldings, and basic four-sided planing of lumber.

The Leadermac Thundermac Moulder Series is a heavy duty moulder designed to run at high speeds and with the ability to handle a wide range of applications to meet your requirements. The Thundermac moulder is available with profile and straight jointers and has feed speeds from 200 to 650 fpm, producing an excellent quality finish. The feed system is designed to handle rough or pre-sized material and is built to run in demanding multiple shift operations, ensuring maximum uptime.

Why Leadermac Thundermac Moulder Series?

Heavily built cast iron or fabricated steel frame ensures the production of quality finished products at high speed rates.
Precision spindle assemblies including four high-precision bearings, each for the highest tolerances and superior finish results.
A wide range of automation options available on the standard Setworks control to provide the operator with fast and repeatable set ups with reduced changeover time

KEY ADVANTAGES

Industrial moulder design with a solid cast iron or fabricated steel frame produces unparalleled finished part quality in its class.
The Thundermac moulder comes with high-quality components, ensuring the best finish possible.
4 pieces of Abec 7 Precision Bearings per spindle – ensuring an excellent finish on your products.
The Thundermac moulders design ensures easy and consistent set up by your operator, ensuring quick changeovers.
Turnkey solutions include on-site operator and maintenance training.

KEY FEATURES

Heavy-duty cast iron or fabricated steel frame provides superior vibration damping which produces superiorly finished parts and promotes long bearing & machine life
Tightly coupled machine ensures smooth and consistent feeding to assist in producing high quality finish
All tables and fences hard chromed with approximately 0.012”-0014” thick hard chrome which ensures maximum longevity
Comes with more top driven and bottom full width driven feed rolls than other moulders of its size
Bottom bed rolls can be adjusted up and down with a simple adjustment from the front of the machine.
6000, 7200 or 8000 rpm spindles each with (4) ABEC 7 precision bearings per spindle which provides smooth surface finish results
Larger cutterhead swing allows for deeper and more complex profiles.
Pneumatic side holdover provides consistent side pressure to the fence
Pneumatic hold down pressure to all top feed rolls provides consistent and repeatable pressure
Pneumatic chip breakers ensuring consistent pressure
Full width driven infeed & outfeed bed rolls
Machine comes standard with Easyset touch screen control setworks (other setworks systems available to increase automation)
Pedestal operators station for positioning in front of moulder away from infeed
Set up controls mounted on pendant with 12’ cord to allow operator to carry in front of machine during setup.
Axial adjustment of last bottom head from front of machine
Heavy duty pneumatic, automatic and programmable table lubrication system
Centralized grease lubrication system
Safety sound enclosure is standard
Pneumatic pressure to chip breakers, holdovers, and top feed rolls

SPECIFICATIONS

Working widths	0.6″ to 9″, 12”, 13”, and 15.75” optional
Working thickness	0.25″ to 6″, 8” optional
Number of spindles	1 to 11
Spindle RPM	6000, 7200 or 8000 RPM
Standard feed speed	20 to 200, 260, 300 or 660 FPM
Minimum part length	8″ (butt to butt)
Axial adjustment of vertical spindles	3.2″ (standard)
Axial adjustment of horizontal spindles	1.6″ (standard)
Infeed bed length	32” (.8m), 55” (1.4m), 78″ (2m) 98″ (2.5), 120″ (3m)

OPTIONS

260, 300, 400 or 660 fpm feed speeds
Variable frequency drives for spindles: allow RPM of spindles to be varied and act as a fully electronic braking system.
Split hold down pressure shoe
Anti-kickback fingers for ripping operations
Rip bed plates / special pressure shoe for ripping operations
Universal spindle
7200 or 8000 RPM spindles for increase feed speeds
2”, 12”, 13”, or 15.75” wide machines
Grooved bed machines for short part feeding
8” diameter feed rolls in lieu of 5.5”/40mm standard rolls
2/2 Heavy duty feed system for more challenging products
Increased Axial adjustment to vertical spindles
Tilting vertical spindles
Smartset 100 Setworks System with touch screen control, memory system, and motorized positioning for near side and top head, utilizing ball screw and rotary encoder for true accurate and repeatable positioning.
Directly opposed side heads
Chamfering spindles for special profiling
Multiple ripsaw spindle with sleeve
Vertical spindle slicing/ripping system
Cutterhead lifting crane
Special requirements on request.

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