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Anyone recognize this central machinery 8 inch jointer
My first post in a while (been a lurker for years).
I just brought home a C/L "find" (one of those "pennies on the pound" dealies ...$150 for probably 350-400 lbs of cast iron and a few ounces of hard plastic knobs).
(This has to be the very first time I've picked up a C/L "find" where I'm not going to have to spend a few hours de-rusting the tables: all 5½ feet of 'em! The thing already shines better than the mid-70's Rockwell Unisaw table's surfaces that I've spent many hours working on lol.)
The name plate says "Central Machinery 8 inch industrial rabbeting jointer SKU # T 7700".
The seller knew nothing about it ...he'd bought a storage unit, and this was inside. He was a nice guy (and helped me load it, which was insane for two old guys using the lift and tote method: thank goodness the two trailers were the same height); what I gave him for this was more that what he paid for the storage unit's entire contents lol.
The jointer looks a lot like pictures of Grizzly G1018HW (link to Grizzly page), or maybe an Enco 150-5110 (link to Enco website manual w-pix).
At some point in its life, someone put the red Grizzly cutter-head guard on it. Hmm, did early Grizzly jointers sport a "Central Machinery" name plate maybe???
The front table also sports shims front and back (I included a pix of the front shim; the rear is pretty much the same). Does anyone know why that might have been done? Shouldn't the cam/gib adjustment that the machine came with been enough to make the tables co-planer?
Anyways, if anyone knows anything about this, or has any comments/suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. (My googling turned up zip-zero-nada for variations on a T-7700 sku.)
Back story: When I left Cali' for Washington state a few years back, I simply couldn't take my entire woodshop with me. We moved our entire household, and there simply was not enough room in the truck to keep everything. So my nice little Jet 6 inch jointer (which looked, if anything, even nicer than this looks) was one of the tools I had to leave behind. I figured I'd buy a new one when we got settled, but the price for jointers (any jointer!) in Spokane is waaaay more than what you could find them for in Sacramento (after 3 years of looking, I am intimately familiar with the local C/L prices). So. This is the first day I've not regretted having to leave the Jet behind lol. Whoo-hoo, an 8 incher! - My wife's happy about it too: she doesn't have to hear me bitterly complain again (ever again, prob'ly) about selling my old jointer.
