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The machine breathes again. Just a very short clip of the gearbox in action without the block fitted. The background noise is the generator running it as I’m still working on it in various places.

Wow, thank you for the kind words it’s much appreciated, i am really pleased this has/will be of some use to yourself. I can see from your photo you have the pattern makers canting front table on your RM, amazing. The FM also had the option for this feature, being the last of the true pattern...

I’m not particularly into cars myself, I’m a Vincent motorcycle fanatic and anything that’s old with two wheels. However my old mans got loads of cars and my favourite to drive is this Lotus Cortina mk2. Although I am not smiling in this photo 😅 it does tend to make me smile when I drive it. It...

It’s my pleasure Fred I am pleased you have found interest in this thread. I am looking forward to slinging the first piece of wood over it in a few weeks time

Thank you very much, it’s been a great project.

It’s been a short while since I updated on here, works been busy etc etc. I have still been working on the planer as and when I have been able and I am nearly at the end of what’s been a wonderful rebuild of a truly magnificent machine. I have turned my full attention to the block and wiring it...

A quick-fire update on the planer, the end draws close. I now have the castings painted and mounted that carry the top tables and facilitate them sliding up and down. The electrical covers are painted and nearly ready for refitting along with the Brookhurst isolation switch which i am taking...

Yeah it’ll be the usual template on top of the stock and run round on the spindle. I’ll put the 4” block in but instead of the ring fence I’ll have to use the follower. I’m not the biggest fan of the follower as I can’t regulate the cut like you can with the ring, however, it does have its plus...

Thanks Johnny. The size of the main beams off the top of my head are 5.1 long, 300 deep and 100 thick. The Oak is arriving from France in 2-3 weeks so it’ll all kick off then. Thanks for the interest

more progress on the FM, it’s really starting to look like a planer again and my big pile of old cast iron is getting smaller and smaller. I’ve fitted the block castings back onto the machine, they also take the feed gear and pressure bars, so it’s been a big big leap forwards getting them...

That’s the great thing with the rod Niall, it became apparent quickly the computer had a hard time spitting it out. Sections 1&4 are the same dims and 2&3 are the same, so I’ve made both pairs run the same, it looks ok. It’s funny you mention the Swastika as we were having a chat about this at...

Not on this bridge as although it’s big for me on my own, it’s relatively tiny and no issue to get the timber in one piece. We have however made a 22m bridge many years ago, that was massive and laminated. Scotty

If a story pole is what aids you in making something Pete then I can only assume yes it is! Thankyou for the interest and I hope you enjoy the thread as it unfolds Scotty

the rod isn’t calculations as such Mike, in most instances the drawing (if I’m lucky enough to get one 😄) has all the salient details on it, it’s just a ‘to full scale’ drawing to enable me to actually make it accurately. When I prepare my various components from rough sawn, they will lay...

I have the rod finished and the template for the 2 main beams out ready to go. I need to run the hand rail and the bottom rail out Monday, I got sidetracked with my planer this afternoon and ran out of time for this. It’s been very enjoyable drawing it out, with the bottom curves working out to...

Hi Mike, I rod everything out I make 1:1 and put every detail you can imagine onto it. Position of mortice and tenons, depth of tenons, haunch sizes, it gives me my cutting list, positions of all components and how and where they land (particularly important for curved work) all my radii...

Bravo. What a marvellous job.

That is awesome

Hi Deema. Thanks for the interest. There won’t be any ‘crush effect’ on the infills from the top and bottom rails (atleast not enough to upset any joints or promote warping) as there will be ample room in my mortices for them to simply move up in the opposite direction, almost a slide if you...

Hi Andy, i don’t get involved In any design work myself. By the time it gets to me the client has signed the final approval and we’re off. This was about design #25 I think 😄 Thanks for the interest Scotty