Thread: Servian Vertical Edge Oscillating Sander

The innards!
The wiring was good to the new switches that came fitted but from the switches to the two 3 phase motors it wast Rat Sh** , with the black rubber insulation around each wire crumbling away to the touch , this machine does a bit of moving so it's just a mater of time for the wires to rub through and touch some metal somewhere. I have a new fuse box with all the trip / safety type switches as well .

With some new 80 grit on she does a nice job of shaping and smoothing .
Replacing the linear bearings with new ones was not the way to go , we are all agreeing now that originally it would have had bronze bushes ? / bearings, so I have sent pictures to an engineer to get them sorted .
The oscillating action is not as bad as before with the worn bearings but it's not perfect . it works fine with the oscillating turned off for now.
Tracking was not going to well at first, it was impossible in fact ,if you look closely at the fitted belt it is about 35mm to short , I ran it to high a few times and it shredded itself. I wrapped some cloth covered tape around the small wheel to give it a camber , a high point in the middle . Wow , it worked real good.

The work top plate around the small wheel needs a big gap filled , I cant figure out why it's there , it looks like it was put there when it was made . At first I thought it was just going to be fixed with a longer belt fitted which would close the gap , but that is not possible with no travel left.

So I have a few more things to do with it , a fence as well possibly, some missing covers down low in the body . once we moved it in two of us spent three days cleaning her up. The price paid was $575

Cheers Rob

Here is couple more pictures , one inside the empty cast iron body . The picture to the left is the main shaft as it sat in the machine, I was able to rotate it 180 degrees so the bronze is running on fresh shaft. I will ask the engineer what he thinks of this as well . any ideas here .
If any one has any pictures of the same type of machine I would love to see them . I'm missing two lower doors / covers and would like to know what they looked like
I also need to make replacement wheels to fix the tables in place .Ive got two originals left out of eight . They are a bad design and break to easily .

Rob

Rob, its great to see that old girl going again, I'm glad you got it !, they are a great machine and so handy to have in the shop.
Just be careful now, don't get into the habit of having to sand a couple of millimeters of the end of something, seeing how easy that machine takes the material away, then 5 mm then 10 mm, before you know it its the only machine you need...lol..

Melbourne Matty.

Rob,


Great to see it made it out of storage and into the workshop, definitely a useful machine and a fine example (I am embarrassed to say I only have a more modern Baby 80, but I still find I use it more than I originally expected).


It does seem strange that the idle drum doesn't close up the gap in the table at the end. I would have suggested that perhaps the drum had been replaced for a smaller drum, but the drum seems to fill the table width wise well so no room for a bigger idler drum.

Having searched a bit through google, it looks like that is how two others are set up (with the gap at that end of the table), assuming one of them is not yours.

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Hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on it for you, and information on the doors.

Cheers,

Camo

Well Googled there Camo thanks .
I was trying that last week but came up with nothing , I tried it now with the full name and got the same pictures as you .

It's very interesting to see other machines , one of them has one door on the end , none of those machines are my one. The knob style has changed from mine. I would like to know what the bearings looked like from the top looking in. One of them has what looks like a miter gauge fitted ,I have holes in the top at the same position , I was wondering what went there.

Rob

Originally Posted by auscab

One of them has what looks like a miter gauge fitted ,I have holes in the top at the same position , I was wondering what went there.

Rob,

I would imagine this would be a similar setup to what I am missing on my JTA on the disc sander side (Henry AKA Clear Out, was nice enough to show me the part I am missing, along with some other great machines and catalogues, it was a great day down in Sydney). The mitre gauge basically has a slot cut into the base of it to receive a piece of square bar. The square bar is attached to the mitre, but is free to allow the mitre to slide forward, the bar has two pins on the base that fits into two or the various holes along the table. You place the mitre into the desired hole and you can slide the mitre back and forth a bit to spread the sanding across the disk, while maintaining the angle against the disk.

I would imagine your setup would simply have two fixed pins, as obviously you don't need to move the mitre to spread the sanding across the belt, given it is already moving .

Cheers,

Camo

G,day Matt here from brisbane .I have no 67 would like to chat about sander if you have time. many thanks matt 07 32890020

I just had a good chat with Matt on the phone , no 67 is the grey one in Camo's pictures above . picked up at Greys online for $280 roughly ?I think you said Matt.

Great sander , I'm loving mine , Ive been making it pay it's way with a few jobs so far. Fitting big solid hardwood corner blocks to an antique sofaframe that needed strengthening . And I had to reduce some wardrobe doors in height by 3mm, they were fitted with Cedar corbels as well , sanded the lot off, corbels attached and all. Wow!!

If you need any help trying to figure how to load pictures here Matt , Give me a call and I will go through it over the phone with you if you like . That's probably the quickest way to get it sorted.

Regards Rob

Originally Posted by auscab

I just had a good chat with Matt on the phone , no 67 is the grey one in Camo's pictures above . picked up at Greys online for $280 roughly ?I think you said Matt.

Great sander , I'm loving mine , Ive been making it pay it's way with a few jobs so far. Fitting big solid hardwood corner blocks to an antique sofaframe that needed strengthening . And I had to reduce some wardrobe doors in height by 3mm, they were fitted with Cedar corbels as well , sanded the lot off, corbels attached and all. Wow!!

If you need any help trying to figure how to load pictures here Matt , Give me a call and I will go through it over the phone with you if you like . That's probably the quickest way to get it sorted.

Regards Rob

Rob,

Good to hear she is back in service, I can imagine you giving it a good workout, they really are the kind of machine you don't realise you will use all that much, until you have one.

Cheers,

Camo