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Nice.Very Nice!!!
Jack
You have some amazing machines.
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Shows you the old Wadkin doesn't need direct drive or matching belts to be vibration free. I wish I aged as well. Dave
Impressive. That head has some major mass to it!
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Very cool .. What's the diameter of that head ?
Now that's what you call vibration free!! Hell, I'd have a hard time just getting the dimes to stand up. Sounds like a jet warming up for take off....
Andy Kertesz
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Rick the head is 5" with skewed knifed and moulding plates too. it can cut moulding 12" wide 2" deep.
here you can see that the cutter block is tapered on the sides the jointer knifes plates/clam go.
the wadkin head has keyed jacking/ knife adjustment screws and you don't need the plates to to hold the knifes from slipping like the Oliver head. the stud hole is through the head and the stud bottom on a small rim on the top edge.
a set of Wadkin spent knifes(no life left) with the key slot at the back on the blade. only half of the knifes are useful in this design. the blade are about 1 1/2" wide when new. You are still able to get theses from wadkin.
i have found regular knifes placed in front of the key screw. this is very dangerous with this type head.
you have a 12" section for moulding knifes in the jointer head and it does not upset the straight knifes.
the hard wood side of the head is thinner than the softwood side of the head by about 5/8" this is what skews the knife.
here are the toe plates i had made with my custom free hand ground knifes. Is that nice or what?
jack
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English machines
That jointer is something else.
Hell, my 6" delta x5 (I know, I know) shakes my whole house when I start it up. And it's on a concrete floor!
Ok, maybe I exaggerate a tad.
Very impressive, Jack, very impressive indeed. Makes me wish I had the space and access to such beautiful iron. Even old and rusty, it makes mine look sad.
Love your videos, btw.
Paul
Jack that is one sweet head. How do the inserts in a tow clamps sound spinning at 7000 RPM?
for those following at home Matt made the molding tooling holder ?toe clamps and sis some major work on the head. The Man is an insane tool and die craftsman. Very lucking to have cross path and made a friendship with someone so in love with the craft.
Have not set it up yet as many things have to be in play for them to work properly Matt. I let you try it at the rust fest in a week times.
jack
English machines
Moulding head on a jointer?? That's a new one to me! I've seen them on a planer, but not on a jointer. My first thoughts were how you get a smooth cut without a roller to hold the wood down, but after thinking about, I guess it wouldn't be any different than getting a smooth cut with a straight blade on a jointer.
When I make base cap trim like that on my router table, I use featherboards both vertical and horizontal to hold the wood in place, and I have to keep the wood moving to not get any ripples. Seems to me that it would be hard to keep it down and keep it moving on a jointer with just two hands and no featherboards.
Just curious!
Keith
Also curious as to what motor you have on that thing. It took a while to spool up, which is a good thing. Runs nice and smooth!
Keith
the head is heavy so it takes a bit to get that up to speed
the motor is 5 hp 3 phase and may seam light in today's standards but this head take less power to drive through the wood. the Knife angle is steeper than you straight knife gib heads. think of it as a low angle block plane.
the feed motor is 2 hp
the machine was made for 25 hrzs(old Niagara power grid) and the PO did a bad job of trying to convert it to single phase. i had to find all the motors for this one with the old foot mounted base to fit.
this is how i got it
jack
English machines