hello fellow WW's
Shop tour 6 will be looking at some of my grey colored machines. There will be shop tour 6A 6B 6C and 6D for grey machines. Shop tour 7 will have some green machines ( not grizzly although their stuff is pretty good ). Shop tour 8 will have the stragglers and some gold machines.
Tonight we have the Newman 60 Jointer for your viewing pleasure. Here are its vital specs
weight ~ 2200 lbs
size = 16"
Table width = 22"
Motor 5 hp direct drive
Ball bearing 3 knife cutter head
Here are some of the details
1. This is not a true patternmakers jointer, although it did come from a pattern shop. The infield table does not tilt as would be the case in a true patternmakes jointer. The outfeed table does tilt via the little stange lever you see in the left hand side of one of the pictures. That tilt feature is used to create an intentional hollow in the edge of a jointed board. When two boards are put together in a "glue up", being jointed like that, it creates a small gap between the edges. This joint was called a "spring joint", the idea being that a couple of clamps put in the center to pull it together would result in the ends also being clamped by the "spring" in the joint. The "spring joint lever" can also adjust the tables to be co-planer as well and that is how I normally use the machine.
2. The newman uses a very typical "three toed" stance and many people find it very comfortable to work with.
3. As you can see it is direct drive. All vibration due to belts and pullies are eliminated. Most of the old time machines used this method ( oliver, moak, northfield, and newman ). The cutting head on the newman has just over a 5" cutting circle! I think that this was to compensate for the slow head speed compared to modern belt drive units that spin around 4500 or 5000 rpm ( keeping the SFM with both designs ). The bearings on the newman were particularly large, with the inboard bearing having a 5" ID !!! . They are lubricated with and oil bath / oil cup system... I call it constant drip.
4. The infield table is adjusted with a "ships wheel" which runs into a worm drive gear reducer which results in very fine adjustments per wheel rev ( 0.010" per wheel revolution !) . The outfeed table has the more traditional lower wheel that really is never adjusted much.
5. The tables themselves sit on top of the wedge bed and actually slide independently from the wedge. With out lowering either table you can slide each table back from the cutter head to expose the entire cutter head and all of the dust collection below. Supposedly it also allows one to correct for twist by shimming under the table rather than trying to mess with the gibbs and ways. You will also notice the steel edging attached to the cast iron tables.
6. The 22" extra wide table makes it possible to take "skewing cuts" for figured wood and such and still keep most of the lumber on the table ( even though the blade is only 16" wide ).
7. The tables are long ( about 96" ), but the oliver had even longer tables.
I have found this to be a real nice machine. The newman 60's do come up for sale every so often and if in good shape are well worth the $.
thanks for looking
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Originally Posted by Alan Turner
