Thread: Auction - Perth - oh boy.

On heading back to get my stuff the next day ... and having been considering a lathe very tentatively for a couple of years ... I saw one in the shed and asked how much it went for. "It didn't. Neither did the other one." ... "What other one?"

Short story ... take the two for $20. So now the van heading home looked like ...

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Thanks to Homesy for his help or I'd still be trying to load the van.

Starting to put them together and check them out ...

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I got the sticker from the muckier one and realised I could make it out ... and then Gumtree had an ad for the same brand ($600!)
T-GEM

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Where are you going to find the room for all that, Paul

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by derekcohen

Where are you going to find the room for all that, Paul
Regards from Perth
Derek

Ummmmm ....

I might be in Sydney and never visited your home but I agree with the statements above.

I think the solution is nearby ...
http://www.realcommercial.com.au/pro...dale-501249695

Originally Posted by pmcgee

A shaper and *power-feed* for $200 ...

A Wadkin overhead router for $200

a 4-barrel dust collector with HUGE bags ... $200

a Paul Call belt sander ... $50

and a "specialty sander" for $30 ... saved from a life as a garden ornament .

... and having been considering a lathe very tentatively for a couple of years ... I saw one in the shed and asked how much it went for. "It didn't. Neither did the other one." ... "What other one?"

Short story ... take the two for $20.

You jammy pair of so-and-soes

Cheers, Vann.

Just to be clear, neither of us bought any of the heavy stuff ... ok $200 heavy stuff.

I did get one *heavy* cheap item ... and having the rain go away and gotten time to check it out ... here's the deal.

3 phase seems good. I tried out the machine, the belt was running offline into the body of the machine ... got that stabilised somewhat after chocking with a pine offcut. The bottom roller was running out significantly, and on checking closer I found about an inch side to side movement. I figured there was a bearing issue, contemplated its use to me as-is, and decided to disassemble and store the important bits.

I did get to try it a bit on a 35mm square stick of tassie oak. Yep. It sanded corners off pretty damn fast.

Someone did a pretty good job of designing this thing ... even 'though it looks like it was built from part of another machine, a safe or an army tank. As with other 3phase machinery I have come across, everything here pretty much came undone without much fuss or bother.
I don't know what it is, but I appreciate it.
The single hitch was a bar that had bent over time, but that was sorted pretty easily.

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The motor sat at the bottom, the bottom rear was reinforced with that 15mm panel ... you know, because of the delicate nature of the rest of it. The bottom pulley/wheel assembly ran in that metal "hood" with bearing housings machined into it.
Turns out the bearings were fine, the shaft had a loose grub screw so was slipping side to side.

In the mid-height section, those flat panel + roller assemblies fit into the receiving section. The whole assembly had some lateral adjustment, and the rollers have adjustment within the assembly. One has a broken leg and no second roller.

The top section is the most engineered. Each roller assembly was bolted to the centre spine, with a shaft running across between and in front of them. The assemblies hold the rollers on sprung shafts, so they could be lowered to allow a belt to be slipped on or off.
The lever out the front turned the shaft that rotated a cam to pull the rollers lower.

There was a lack of vertical distance adjustment between the large rollers. The sanding belt wasn't being tensioned much at all, although I hadn't figured then that moving the middle plates could take up some slack.

So there it is. Pretty sure the body of it is heading to the tip this weekend.

Cheers,
Paul

PS some of the spine has cracked across (cast iron I think) ... and the belt running off centre has cut a substantial V into the substantial metal