PK Douglas Trim Saw

Picked up this PK Douglas trim saw today for a steal. I have been keeping my eye out for quite awhile for this class of saw. I would ideally find a floor model Hammond but this should fill the gap for awhile.

The machine is in excellent working condition, and has nearly all the accessories as far as I can tell. Including the mitre fence and mitre clamp attachment. Just needs a grease and tune up and will be ready to go.

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@clear_out do you have a manual for these? I read on an old post that you potentially did.

My mate has three of them plus the type caster and type to go with it

There was a Hammond Glider saw down in Victoria a couple of weeks ago but looks to have been sold now. It was a missing a couple of bits thou. Nice find on the P K Douglas!

I’ve had a search in the pile and a parts list is all I’ve found to date.
We have a new cheap printer/scanner and it doesn’t want to scan atm:no:
Something about the password my wife set it up with.
Why you need a password on a scanner at home is beyond me:o
Any hu here’s a pic of each page from my phone.
H.
Computa says no:( I’ll try again later.

Looking at that brings back horrible memories of my apprenticeship. I saw a bloke at tech cut his thumb off using one, no safety tuition that I recall in those days.

Thanks heaps for that H, printers and scanners seem to be a major source of technological pain for me at least.

Chris I saw you mention that on an older post, I find that interesting considering the sliding table and clamping feature. Seems well designed to keep fingers away from the blade?

If you look closely at the cover photo on the parts list there is an aluminium thumb guard showing.
This doesn’t appear in the following pages from a quick look.
It is also missing on your saw.
I’m sure my Hammond has one so after breakfast I’ll get a pic.
Be easy enough to make and fit.
I’ve cut thousands of pieces of ply for glue testing on a Douglas and even though working to beat the clock still have my thumb so those guards do work.:U
H.

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Originally Posted by Toomnus

Thanks heaps for that H, printers and scanners seem to be a major source of technological pain for me at least.

Chris I saw you mention that on an older post, I find that interesting considering the sliding table and clamping feature. Seems well designed to keep fingers away from the blade?

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I always recall it with wonder myself and all I can think of is the locking bar was not used as that was a common practice when cutting a single line of type or lead. The locking bar was used when cutting multiples as the accuracy needed was very high. What a wasted five years that was, I did Nasho after it and then never returned to printing which only preempted what was going to happen any way.

Here’s the thumb guard on the Hammond.
Chris my trade Patternmaking has now largely disappeared but I don’t regret doing it.
At the time I was pretty over 5 years but it kept me out of ‘Nam.
Stayed at it for another 5 years then did other stuff ending up still woodworking but out of the engineering side of it.
H.

Ahh yep I noted that on the parts list but didn't go back and see it on the cover, that would be handy; why are the safety guards normally the first thing to go missing on old machines?

In my hazy 50 year old recollection they were not fitted to a lot of saws but don't take that for anything more than what it is. By the time I finished Nasho the Daily Mirror and Telegraph had laid off about 800 staff so getting back into the industry was not possible which suited me just fine as I hated it. Photo comp was being introduced of which I had done the initial course in my final year and The Australian had gone national from one desk, it was the first newspaper to do so and was founded for that reason.