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Raising an old Durden Pacemaker from the dead.
Guys, a little over a week ago, a couple of days before Christmas, I bought a Durden Pacemaker UP12-600. I had been looking on and off for some time, but they were either cheap and poorly looked after, or way up at the top end of the market with the price, but still not perfect by any means. I was not thinking it was not going to happen any time soon....it did. I had the 12" blade model way back in the early 80's, and it also had the 2hp motor. I sold it years ago, I lost interest once I had made the furniture I needed etc. The one I bought was pretty rough, but it was only minutes from me, and it seemed to be good enough to make a start. There were no cross slide, proper wheel kit, rise/fall didn't operate, no saw guard, no reverse switch, no fence bars at the front, and it was fairly rusty, but only surface rust. The buzzer guard spring wasn't operating as it should, and was nearly dead. I stripped it down to look at things and clean etc, made sure there was nothing to worry about regarding starting it up, plugged it in and switched it on, it ran well, no issues at all. I continued to clean and paint, replace bolts, made fence bars, but they will be replaced with the correct size material as soon as I can buy some. I had 75x10mm steel in stock at the time and wanted to get things moving, and check for correct fitment, I need to lower the next set by about 2mm to clear the saw fence, I missed that one... I built a saw guard copying to a degree the original, but mine it steel, and I made a new spring for the buzzer fence, both work fine now. My next project is to build a sanding attachment, finding an original looks to be way to difficult, there really doesn't seem to be any parts for sale anywhere. I had one of these bought new with my machine $129 at the time. I looked through threads here and others have found the same thing, so I will be designing something I can do with the resources that I have available. Now comes the tricky bit, is there someone out there that has an original sander attachment that they could photograph, to refresh my memory of how it is built and how it mounted. I took the moulder bracket off and see 2 mounting holes, but the details are not clear.
Thank you,