Started my next project yesterday. Restoration on a PM-100 planner. I can't nail down the dates on this one, what I have found says it was built between 1950 and 1955. The good thing is it is old enough not to be be green! Or worse, Mustard color that Powermatic is so found of. Sorry guys but I think PM made some great machines but needed some help in the color department.
Disassembly was easy except for the head. It didn't want to come out easy. Ended up having to drive it out. As a result I am going to need a couple of new pulleys but casualties are the just the price you have to pay sometimes. Don't mean that flippant, I just could find no other way to get the shaft out. the casting is to big to put in a press.
I have it down to the bare casting and this looks like a pretty simple restoration. Motor is an old Century 2 hp that needs work. It will go the motor shop tomorrow morning. The cutter head is going to have to go the machine shop for a little press work. The rest looks like clean and repaint and replace type work. Very straight forward. Just dread buying the belts and putting them back in place. I think there were 5 belts inside the machine!