Whitehead Junior PJT Planer Thicknesser Help

[justjigsaws]

Hello all,

I'm new here, in fact I'm new to Forum use full stop!

Hopefully someone out there can help me....?

I recently (Last week) acquired a Whitehead Junior Planer Thicknesser, it needs a little work to tidy it up and I have a 1.5kw inverter to fit to it so I can use it at home, that in itself isn't a problem as I am an Electrician in industry and inverter work is a weekly occurrence for me... Anyone needing help with this sort of stuff just ask.

Where I need some help is.....

Has anyone out there got any literature, manuals or the like for this machine that I could have a copy of ????

I know about the guys in Leeds (D.B. Keighley Machinery Ltd) but they don't seem to reply to my emails or seem to want to help, so I've given up on them.

Hopefully someone out there can help????

Thanks all.

 

[justjigsaws]

Anyone.................. ???????

 

[justjigsaws]

Thanks Ian, not able to reply to your PM for some reason, nothing on there that helps though..... The search continues.....

 

[longinthetooth]

Actually machine designs like this are usually easy to understand w/o a manual - you can more or less see how they're built & how they work just by looking at them. I think it helps to mentally dismantle a machine in this fashion, to understand how its parts relate to each other & what the source of any operating quirks might be. I'd say that all machines have quirks built in at the design stage, but with experience (and the above kind of analysis) you learn to compensate for these.

When it comes to setting up - it's worth checking alignments of tables, fences for linearity, squareness etc. Or just run some work through & see if it comes out straight and square. If not, then it's either technique or the machine! If adjustment is needed there will be a logical order to adjust things in (see para 1 above). For a pt like this it's usually the cutterblock that's the initial reference, since it's non-adjustable - table mountings can be filed, scraped, shimmed.

You will find your own compromises, eg for feed roller pressures, which are best set strong for heavy workpieces and light for more slender stuff - since you don't want to fiddle with them all the time, a bit of trial & error can establish your own setting dependent on the range of work you mostly do.

 

[wallace]

I'd agree, a planer isn't hard to work out and set up. Check to see if tables are co-planer. Since its new to you check things for safety, blades, pulleys etc and trial and error. put some timber through you'll soon find out if its set up correctly. What kind of age is it, I have a big old whitehead morticer which has great build quality. Any pictures? Oh and welcome to the forum, I may want to pick your brains because I'd like to improve my static converter.
Mark