Table saw garage sale find....help needed

**Twisted Timber** · 5th October 2020, 11:07 PM

Hi folks

I picked up this table saw locally at a garage sale....needs some electrical work and general going over, but otherwise looks pretty good. Paid $45.

I think its a Pacemaker...but not sure. It's missing ID labels. It's blue....painted over with green. Heavy as lead, looks to be a Crompton motor with missing start capacitor. The planer is 4 1/2". The previous owner had the planer covered with a flat aluminium plate....removed in the pics.

I need to to buy some planer blades for it....but I don't know what model it is etc....

Any help with model would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

**malb** · 6th October 2020, 05:48 PM

Sorry, not much help in identifying the machine for you. It is fairly old and there would be little chance of finding off the shelf jointer knives for it. However, if you can access a proper industrial saw doctor/sharpening service they should be able to make you a set if you can provide basic dimensions like cutting width, thickness and maximum width to clamp in the head, and if needed, slot locations and dimensions for clamping bolts. It looks like you have detatchable clamping bars on the head, so taking one of them along may be helpful as well. Saw Doc's can generally source HSS blanks in a variety of sizes, cut or grind to match order requirements, then grind edges to suit in a specialist grinding machine. Would be an expensive exercise though, relative to the machine cost.

It is also missing the cutter guard for the jointer, and possibly the jointer fence, though if long enough, the fence on the saw side can be tilted for bevelling and may be suitable for the jointer. I have doubts about the length though as jointer fences normally extend on both the infeed and outfeed side of the cutter head, and with that style of fence normally extend the full length of the infeed, over the cutter head with some relief, and a reasonable distance along the outfeed.

EDIT

Just looked at the last pic as a blowup and realised that the fence is a board screwed to the mounting bracket, rather than a solid chunk of iron. Could be iffy on the saw if it flex's at the free end and caused kickback, definitely not really suitable for the jointer as to square a surface to another, the reference surface is being pushed more firmly against the fence and will cause the board to flex.

**Colin62** · 6th October 2020, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by Twisted Timber

looks to be a Crompton motor with missing start capacitor.

Possibly a 3 phase motor?

**aldav** · 6th October 2020, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Colin62

Possibly a 3 phase motor?

Looks like it's got a three pin single phase plug on it.

**Slave** · 6th October 2020, 07:37 PM

Motor could be a repulsion start/ induction run

**Twisted Timber** · 6th October 2020, 10:29 PM

Thanks for the info.....I'm new to these saws...so will take a bit of absorbing to understand the advice. Ill look into having blades for the planer cut to suit.

its single phase....looks like it might have had a start capacitor...but unsure as yet.

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