Thread: Vintage C 1980 Lamello blade rotates but does not exit the housing

So when you press the machine against a piece of stock does it not plunge forward until it hits the stop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M4D1wVcKIs

Camelot, the housing only plunged so far yesterday. I thought I had got all the glued sawdust out, but when I shone the torch light there was more gunk.

Once I had cleared the gunk from the ‘rail’s and gave each side a puff of graphite (which came with the kit) it plunged forward for a perfect groove.
Hello Lamello.

I can’t believe there was that much glue stopping this.
The previous owner must have been recutting holes which he’d put glue in?

I have the exact identical machine which I bought at auction about 35 years ago from a production joinery.
It has a bit of slop on the rails so I lift the body of the machine whilst plunging it otherwise the slot can be a bit wide therefore not achieving a perfect alignment when joining boards.

Not as bad as the Porter Cable ones Carbacrap was selling in the late 90s, the blade on these was like a wobble saw due to a badly machined spacer. Geoff said ‘it’s only woodwork your too fussy, just sell the product’.
H.