wallace
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Its been a very long time since I did a wip on a rebuild. For the last 6 months I've been working on a biggish planer, its all crated up waiting for its slow boat. I promised myself that I'd do a few of my own machines that I've been accumulating for the last few years.
This was bought for about £150 off ebay and shipped to my place for another £70. I dont have a good track record with morticers, they seem to fall over if you sneeze on them, or it could just be incompitent couriers.
This poor thing did a full flip and bounce off the tail lift
Luckily the one I'm doing arrived unscathed and has been languishing in the undergrowth for a couple of years. Sheeted and smeered with waxoyle.
First job was to drag it in the shed
It was originally a line shaft machine but has been converted to run via a motor, it must have been done quite early on. The starter and motor are pretty cool
I'm not sure on date, at a guess late 20's, Vann will be able to offer some advice.
Heres a leaflet of an earlier version
And heres my version on a photo used for the catalogue
Nearly everything came to bits easily
4hrs work and its in smaller bits
I'm considering doing this one differantly to my usual shiny ones. I quite like machines in their working clothes so to speak. So I dont think I'm going to paint it. Just rebuild. The white paint came off ok with some thinners
This was bought for about £150 off ebay and shipped to my place for another £70. I dont have a good track record with morticers, they seem to fall over if you sneeze on them, or it could just be incompitent couriers.
This poor thing did a full flip and bounce off the tail lift
Luckily the one I'm doing arrived unscathed and has been languishing in the undergrowth for a couple of years. Sheeted and smeered with waxoyle.
First job was to drag it in the shed
It was originally a line shaft machine but has been converted to run via a motor, it must have been done quite early on. The starter and motor are pretty cool
I'm not sure on date, at a guess late 20's, Vann will be able to offer some advice.
Heres a leaflet of an earlier version
And heres my version on a photo used for the catalogue
Nearly everything came to bits easily
4hrs work and its in smaller bits
I'm considering doing this one differantly to my usual shiny ones. I quite like machines in their working clothes so to speak. So I dont think I'm going to paint it. Just rebuild. The white paint came off ok with some thinners