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Thread: Wadkin RD 16" Planer
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21st December 2020, 08:47 PM #31
The 16” RD has the original switchgear and guard.
It is fully operational.
The Surty guard is an American design of self adjusting guard.
These were made here in Oz by J T Peat.
The DLI even had them on their safety sheets.
A photo of the bits for the RD and another of the yellow one I’ve made on my 9” Bursgreen jointer.
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21st December 2020, 09:09 PM #32
Hi Henry.
Is the Surty guard the same as JT Peat's "Ideal" guard, or are there differences?
I'm familiar with the "Ideal" guard as New Zealand Railways had them fitted to all their buzzers and planer/thicknessers - and I have one on my little ex-railway Wadkin RB.
The "Ideal" guard fitted to my RB looks the same as in the diagram - but without the locking handle.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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21st December 2020, 10:49 PM #33
You can see for yourself the two pics of the Surty I took in the Cochrane AB stash, it has a cast Al blade cover.
The J T Peat is on a Melbourne forum member’s machine in Camoz’s Oz machinery post, they all had fabricated steel blade covers.
Mine has the yellow arms and fabricated Al blade cover.
The design sure looks the same to me, the method and detail of manufacture may differ.
They are easy enought to make, Ive done about 3 to date.
Copied the one on the 12” Barker at Civil Eng at USYD.
Bit fussy re jointer guards since 1997 for some reason.
H.image.jpgJimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)
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22nd December 2020, 05:16 PM #34
Yeah sorry, I meant the design. I wasn't sure if the "Ideal" had more springs than the "Surty" and other minor design differences. I guess not.
If they're both the same design I wonder if JT Peat had the Australasian rights to manufacture the "Surty" - or if it was a wartime copy (I know NZ Railways had a full set of patterns for Westinghouse steam locomotive air pumps - which I believe were manufactured during WW2 - and I doubt they had permission from the Westinghouse Brake Co.). As they named it "Ideal" and not "Surty" I suspect they didn't have the rights.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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