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Thanks for the update. Won't try to sus it out on ours now.

Not used them but the Hammer and Minimax machines look nicely made. Always liked the look of the Rojek kit but not sure they have UK importer at present. Then as already mentioned in this thread there's good old SH kit. Good cast machines can last a lifetime with the odd change of bearings and possibly motor so SH can be pretty good rout. You could consider a phase converter to open up your options. My Felder is 3 phase with a rotary type convertor. With planners the blade system needs serious consideration. There are a few systems often needing their own blades to fit. Consider the replacement cost of these as most are now disposable.

Thickness or planer thicknesser? Either way you're going to struggle to run anything bigger than a 12" on single phase

Pretty sure it's Thailand.

Send it air mail to UK Used to use a very long Sagar jointer when doing my training. Was a great machine in use but a right B to set the blades. It was the old tap and check system and would take an age to get right. Can't remember the full circumstances but for some reason there was work carried out on it late into the night to try to get rid of slight imbalance in the cutter block. Next day she was up and running again. The bench shop was directly above the Sagar and heard the beast running and then a slightly odd noise followed by an almighty crash and what sounded like a very unbalanced spinning crashing noise. We were silent now in the bench room just looking at each other but calm-ish voices could be heard below so went to have a look see. Huge chunk of metal missing from the Sagar's bed and a small hole in the ceiling above the stairs and a very pale apprentice. Turns out the outfeed beds bolts had not been properly secured from the evening works and the whole bed had slid into the cutters which in turn threw a knife which the apprentice who was standing on the stairs at the time saw coming and ducked! There was 16" planer knife embedded in the ceiling. No ducking no head, literally. A brand new Wadkin turned up the following week.

Woke up with this nagging at me. When you say you're going to run 3"x12"x 96" lump of oak over it do you mean laterally or horizontally for tenons? Mine being a combi machine has a large outrigger table to support long lengths when tenoning and cross cutting with the saw. Many stand alone spindles don't come with that hence maybe why the guy said not a chance to the Holzmann handling it. Without the outrigger it would be not a chance with Felder as well. If cutting laterally can't see many machines struggling with weight with some rollers set up either end of the machine. Sorry if I have got the wrong end of the stick.

Good to hear. To be fair my poor experiences were maybe 8-10 years ago so things have undoubtedly changed a fair bit not to mention the fact I can be fussy git about accuracy. Only dealing with them now is ordering blades and tooling from their Christmas offers which can be pretty good. From you previous post "3 inch oak slabs a foot wide and 8 ft long" a piece that size on my current sliding carriage would be fine and with the X Roll should be better.

Your on cracking form tonight Jon. Its the thought of some colder weather and all those log sales you're going to make

You're not kidding Johny but it would be duller place without him :lol:

Haha you're avin a laugh ain't ya. First outing in ours and found myself doing 85 without even noticing (normally very well behaved). Admit you don't want to change direction quickly in it at those speeds but they go like stink in straight line.

Have the now old 731 Pro universal. It's generally very good and pretty accurate. A few niggles that when you mention to felder you're told it's your fault not theirs as "Its made in Austria!" The original fence was slightly out of true and an engineer was sent down to Devon to look. He had to use my straight edge and in the end conceded it was out of accepted tolerances and they would send a new one. Think the 900 series stuff is a fair bit more industrial than what I have thou. Just realised I am using their offer catalogue as my mouse mat haha. Oooo that looks a pretty sweet spindle and in totally different bracket to my piddling little machine. Mines 4hp V your 10hp. Their sliding carriages are superb. Just be aware that the company can be a bit erm.... arrogant.

Same engine in all of them Jon. Sounds like yours was faulty or a flagon of cider was wedged under the accelerator.

Jon you clearly drove a duffer or you're normally behind the wheel of a Ferrari Nowt wrong with the get up and go of the current models

Let us know if you sus it out Took me ages to even work out that the running lights only came on when moving.

Yes Don't think the Dmax has front fogs

Haha thanks Chris. Had to rod through to our septic a couple of weeks back so feel for you.

Not that it would have made any difference as I wrote the measurements down wrong It's the top for the dresser I posted some months back. Spent most of the day making up a new side so now I am nearly back to where I was before I got out of bed. If you're looking on a small screen it's a line of biscuit holes not lining up with the shelf they are supposed to. Go on brighten my day up and share your not so bright moments

I like the idea of having the legs detachable Ian. Might look neater if the bracket was let into the legs a bit but you probably can't see it from normal eye line.

Great job Ian. I love dovetail keys used like that.

Can't argue about a tilting spindle being handy and saving on tooling. Fortunate to have a Felder one but even that does not feel like a heavy machine when your spinning big heavy blocks on it. Tilting is not that new. Think there were quite a few good Italian machines with it some years back so you might find something second hand that's solid and tilts for sensible money.

I have a spindle and do exactly as you suggest.

There are a couple of Sedwik machines on ebay ATM both with power feeds. Not used one but most of their kit is simple but solid also made in the UK. I think the greatest improvements in safety are down to the tooling and less so the actual machine. Spindle Moulder: Woodworking | eBay

It's like using a router cutter with bearing guide but on a larger scale. The difference is the radius of the ring guide is larger than the cutter. Used in conjunction with a template that runs against the ring. You set it up that only one point does the cutter line up with the ring so you can take progressively take more and more off without going to the final point first time. Hope that makes sense Explains better [ame] [/ame] Interestingly that ring fence looks like it's the same diameter as the cutter so there may be various sorts.

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