15.24cm wood planer restoration

mike d wrote:

hob wrote:next week i hope.

looking forward to the video..

your not the only one mate

its something you don't see at rallies
mike...

Looking forward to seeing if it all goes well when you try it out just take care on it's first few passes and keep your fingers well clear.

Stu.

been working on the guard for the planer ..............



still needs a clamp screw on the top and the stem welded on the bottom plus a bit of paint.............
balanced it on the stem to see the effect ..............should look a bit like this when finished



also made a wooden "pusher" to keep my hands away from the cutters.......

eventually i want it to look like this at shows

neville....
well that should win best working exhibit in show
i hope you are going to put the photos of it as it was when you got it for all to see the work you've put in to it...
its a great credit to you and your workman ship mate...
well done and like ive said before..keep it up..
mike......

thats a show winner for sure as mike says ......

now that be nice at dorset .

matt

Great work Neville another project to be very proud of, keep up the good work.

Stu.

thanks guys, Its always appreciated after a long hard restoration, I had intended to remove the wheels while in use to keep it static but considered the use of blocks to save time removing the wheels

these might work

Fingers crossed that the blocks work, you'll maybe need to rachet strap it down also to stop any movement whilst in use.

Stu.

well i put it on the blocks to see if they were high enough.................. looks ok to me





also been using the big bandsaw in the workshop to make some wheel chocks to stop things rolling in the trailer if the straps are not positioned right........................my Petter moved on the way home last time

been painting names on the bottoms so i don't get them mixed up



if the weather is not too bad i have another show on sunday



hoping to get a big pulley soon to crank the cutters up to 4000+ rpm

Glad you manage to sort some blocks for the planner, hope you get the new pulley soon to see if that will sort it out.

Stu.

The idea of running it from the National engine looks to be a non starter at least for now as there is no drive shaft, the pulley bolts directly to the flywheel so cannot be changed for a bigger one.
Maybe at a later date when i have it running correctly i can run it from the flywheel?

In the meantime the plan is to run it from the Petter A1 at least to test it, with that in mind i have just had delivered a new pulley, some key steel and a new drive belt. I have painted the spokes red as a reminder that it is a dangerous rotating part.



I used the speed of the old electric motor (1440 rpm) and the motor pulley (6 1\4") to calculate the driven speed was 3000rpm.

The new pulley is 11.22" and the Petter tests at around 800 rpm with my smiths test meter no the resulting speed should also be around 3000 rpm.

The new guard i made has been painted and fitted.



so hopefully everything is ready for a test run once the 6" pulley is removed and the new one fitted.
Neville

Make yourself a line shaft , a couple of pully blocks from e bay 25mm steel bar and what ever size pully you want.
Job done
Jonesey

been making a key to hold the pulley on the shaft, had to remove a little over 0.150" from one side to get it to fit.





now were cooking with gas









the cutter seems a little slow, not a bad thing if its going to run all day at a rally.

with a slow feed in the result is not bad



celebrating with a drop of the old falling down stuff

Neville

All good Neville, what a bargin that wood planner was, I know it's cost a few quid to get in into it's present condition but well worth it, it works great, maybe a little slow but not to bad, next step would be to belt it around the flywheel.

Great project, well done mate,

Stu.