bursgreen hand planer bridge gaurd

[angelboy]

It might be better with a heavy machine, but pushing stuff through the Coronet usually ended up with the whole machine moving

This beast is very heavy. The thicknesser attachment is a two handed affair and quite a struggle to lift on it's own never mind the rest of the machine. That's why it's living on a pallet truck until I have a suitable place for it!

 

[dickm]

Having looked more carefully at that thicknesser attachment, I'm actually a bit puzzled too! Your's seems to have one more slide than I would have expected (the bar to the left in your picture). It looks as if the thick bar coming out of the pic fits in place of the normal side fence, then the plate on the top can be raised or lowered on that upright column to use it like Roy says. But what the bar on the left does???
Maybe post a couple more pics from different angles?

 

[tool613]

so what holds it against the plate ? are there rollers?
i can see why it not getting a great review.


jack

 

[Digit]

Nope! You lower the plate as needed.

Roy.

 

[tool613]

Nope! You lower the plate as needed.

Roy.

don't know if you can call that a thicknesser. :lol:

thanks guys


jack

 

[angelboy]

I'll post some better pictures when I can dig through the snow.........

 

[Dodge]

Well I just had a pm from Jack and he is as happy as a pig in ****!

The planer bridge guard that I had lying under my bench was exactly what he wanted so courtesy of DHL it winged its way across to Canada and has made it safely to his workshop.

Now all we have got to do is wait to see the finished pictures of his refurb'd planer.

Rog

 

[tool613]

Rog

i am indeed happy as a pig in shi*. i will be posting the planer soon. this fourm is great. thanks Rog :ho2 :deer


jack

 

[tool613]

they are never a good as you think. many things wrong with this one . broken cast 550 volts, no manuals.

i was not going to post until i was done. i am 90% there. i have run into a snag with the single phase motor running back wards. so i got to take it all apart and said i will post anyway.
before

after

the guards that it had when i got it were gunk. i had to make new one that i had no plans for or any history on.

oh ya i adding deco.



jack

 

[Eric The Viking]

It looks wonderful.

I have to say, though, that in daily use it wouldn't ever have been that shiny!

A technical question: when you were cleaning up the covers and castings, did you remove the trim and paint behind, or carefully mask it up? I think it looks truly splendid, and probably works as well now as when it was new.

Jolly well done.

E.

PS: When I was very small (1960s) we lived in north London close to a Bakerloo line station. When we had to go on the tube, one of my treats was for mum to let us get in the guard's carriage to watch him working (they used to just put a bar across to separate the operational area from the passengers). He had controls for the train doors and to signal the driver, etc. The buttons were hinged at the top behind the panel and would wobble slightly with the movement of the train. They were also so worn there was a pronounced, thumb-shaped indentation in the most used ones.

The buttons on your Bursgreen reminded me: it's brilliant.