Thread: Help with Buzzer/Thicknesser

Hi Varra,
Thanks for reviving this old thread, and for the info about the old machine you picked up.
I did end up completing the restoration, though I never located the feed-out table for the buzzer, unfortunately.
There was a bit of work involved in the conversion to 3-phase electric with the v-belt pulley drive, but it was well worth it.
Not long after I had made it operational, I picked up a truckload of Jarrah for some feature timber work on a house we were building down in Margaret River. All the timber was recycled, and in need of dressing. Every piece went through the thicknesser, including some 6 metre long, 300mm wide jarrah boards. It chewed through it without breaking a sweat.
It would be great to see some pics of your machine, if that's possible.
I'll also upload some pics of mine, now that it's operational (though it's somewhat buried at the back of the shed at the moment).
Thanks again!

Thanks for the response Wizzle,
Good to here you got the unit operational. When I first bought my unit from an old carpenter joiner in Maylands it had a 3 phase motor/ flat belt drives and a throw over clutch to engage the feed on the thicknesser - now I'm sorry I did the V Belt upgrade only from a nostalgic perspective. I had the cutter drum rebalanced and new bearings which allowed me to increase the cutter speed and change the infeed to to give me two strikes of the cutters per mm of travel in the infeed.
It has taken me forever to work out how the tables are set, but now that I have it sussed I'm amazed at how good and accurate the machine still operates.
I will strip it back to base metal and then reset all the feed and pressure rollers during the reassembly - will be hard without any manuals but i'm sure there will be sufficient information on the net.

There should be 3 photos