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Planer/Jointer Collection

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Hi fraternity

Well as you will be aware my workshop has been receiving a few upgrades, i.e. out-feed table etc. and to be honest it has worked out fairly well. I have included one photo of my utilization of said table, and unfortunately have succumbed to the dreaded disease of quote, if you have a flat horizontal surface in a workshop use every available space on it, regardless.

Now on to my next project, which involves my good wife. Now if you have read any of my previous posts you will ascertain that although I am the king of my workshop I am not the king of all I sovereign over.

The only machine left that gives me her grief is the planer/thicknesser. It I a Wadkin Bursgreen 3 phase which is a delight but it’s Achilles heel is its inability to handle the shavings it produces. It shoots the results out on to my drive like driven snow, which results in a big clean-up operation, now because I am retired and can’t be bothered I usually leave this cleaning task until I can be bothered, but it does bother someone.

The reason being, is when she allows me access to the place I have been paying the mortgage on for 25 years I get a little excited, and when I make my way there in my hurried pensioners shuffle I walk though my planers offerings and drag them into the house. Unfortunately, I never get that far, usually a cup is thrust into my hand, at the same time she is spinning me 180 degrees, back from whence I came.

I then at this point decided to deal with the perpetrator of my woes and started on a shavings collection. Now as you will know these industrial vacuums don’t come cheap, the smaller ones i.e. 63mm I felt was too small, ok for dust but not shavings. I recently fitted one to my band saw and thought about teeing in to that, and then I thought about a new connection and away I went. I managed to fund the project for zero monies as I had everything lying about as you see from my new out-feed table.

Now I won’t go into the construction procedures as the photos are explanatory. What you can’t see is I bored holes in the top of the planer fence and inserted pins into the box which keeps it in place.

I also inserted a blast gate to the vacuum opening to the bandsaw as I didn’t want to reduce the suction. I just cut a piece of 6mm ply for the planer blast gate and slotted it into a 100mm pvc drain gully, works a treat. I heat treated another 45 degrees drain connection to fit the circumference of the vacuum. The tubing is a 125mm extract vent I had left over from a job.

So how did it work. Well I fed a length of 4x2 through the machine a few times then checked the vacuum bin first, delighted. Then removed collection box and nothing left, more than I expected.

I then fitted a couple of hooks and it now sits out of the way.

I know it’s not a work of art, probably the opposite, but it works.

Now at this point you might be asking how this impacted on my right of access to all my wife owns. The turnaround has been miraculous, I am now allowed access to the kitchen, only short periods in one spot, I am taking this on board as a victory.

Colin
Scotland

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kp91
Colin,
I could read your posts all day. You have mastered the written word.

Great project, glad it keeps you out of trouble with the Boss.
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Cherryville Chuck
Covering every available space with tools and parts is an unwritten law just as the one "No matter how large your shop is you will eventually over fill it".
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Thanks, appreciate the kind words. Hope to keep the work and words going
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M
You crack me up Colin. Love reading your post.
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DesertRatTom
Amusing as usual. My sweetheart also prefers I keep sawdust to myself. I have a new DeWalt 735 planer the fluff from which I have not dealt. I had thought I'd simply roll it out onto the drive and let Mariah (the desert wind) carry it off. Unfortunately we were nearly becalmed that day so I wound up using the push broom and dust pan. I did buy a shoe brush device to use before entering the house, but have since misplaced it. If I purchase a new one, the old one is certain to surface within 24 hours.
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kp91 said:
Colin,
I could read your posts all day. You have mastered the written word.

Great project, glad it keeps you out of trouble with the Boss.
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You can say that again. Thorough, detailed, yet humorous. All I need to see is Colin's name on the post and I know it's worth reading.
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DaninVan
Heh...great stuff, Colin!

I'm a bit curious; doesn't your jointer have a dust chute and port for extraction? It looks like a pretty beefy commercial quality machine; even those had extraction ports back in the '60s.
(Our Highschool woodshop was fully fitted out with central dust collection, way back in the day.)
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DaninVan
I just took a more careful look at ALL the pics...yours appears to be a combination planer/jointer?

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Rogerdodge
Did you audition for "Last of the Summer Wine." , Colin ?
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JFPNCM
Excellent piece and a fine solution to the problem.
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Hi
Yes that’s correct. Originally it had a hood but it was so inefficient nobody used it and most were discarded. I purchased this machine along with the saw table, drill press and 12inch grinder when the new uk Regs came in stating every machine had to have braking. I was at the time a lecturer in construction at a college in Perthshire Scotland and they decided to replace every machine rather than fit dc braking. I made a ridiculous offer and was accepted. My only problem was all the machines were 3 phase. Ie 415volts. I then bothered the life out of the electrical lecturers until I figured out 3 phase wiring and went about installing and as they say the rest is history, by the way could not believe the difference in single and 3 phase wiring. A steep learning curve.

Thanks for your interest
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Coleve said:
, by the way could not believe the difference in single and 3 phase wiring. A steep learning curve.

Thanks for your interest
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Welcome to my world! Wye and delta 3 phase, ungrounded single phase (i.e. 63 volts and -63volts to get the 120v), and voyages from 12 and 24v D.C. Through 115,240,440 and I used to even have 4160 vAC. Keeps you on your toes. And if anything ever does ground, you get handy alarm horns to let you know about it!

Biggest challenge now is components come from all over the globe and wiring diagrams are far from universal....

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