96” planer going to the pot

[brightspark]

wheres the pump motor gone

 

[mike os]

What’s the big flat thing in the foreground?

 

[Mick Annick]

What’s the big flat thing in the foreground?

Space, waiting to be filled with another big machine

 

[mike os]

Space, waiting to be filled with another big machine

Nope not space … behind with an f or g I think …

 

[pressbrake1]

What’s the big flat thing in the foreground?

Powerpack for the planer!

 

[mtt.tr]

In a days work and all that.


Let's get her wired in now!!!

 

[mtt.tr]

You two must have really got a shuffle on that's no feat all the equipment you've moved there

It's Clive heis an athlete. @pressbrake1

 

[pressbrake1]

It's Clive heis an athlete. @pressbrake1

If only
I’m a festering pile of camel dung

 

[Maker]

Powerpack for the planer!

What does that consist of?

 

[mtt.tr]

What does that consist of?

Lots of iron just Coz it's "propa", weighs about 2 tons

 

[pressbrake1]

A hydraulic pump and a bunch of valves

A gentleman only uses bunch to describe fruit or flowers.
Enough of your colonial talk!

 

[pressbrake1]

Skip dived a grinding head
It was in a motors skip at a scrap yard!

 

[ronan]

A bit of planer action.

 

[pressbrake1]

Little Rockford planer
Owner giving a demonstration of how not to plane a straight edge

 

[GraemeVW]

Little Rockford planer
Owner giving a demonstration of how not to plane a straight edge

For us uninitiated, why?
I know nothing about machining really, but I'd have thought you would want the surface being worked to be parallel with the table. More awkward to hold, but won't the cut just try and bend that with it on its side?

Pure guesswork, I'm clueless on this stuff.

 

[pressbrake1]

Clamping coercion
Mr Watkins’s charges more to plane a straight edge than I supply a planed one for!