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A Weekend Haul

Alasdair

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Call from an old friend last week resulted in my parting with some (but not a lot) of cash and coming home with this haul, a lovely litte Wooden saw vice, two 1/2" JCB routers, a 10" Charnwood Planer/Thicknesser on a stand and dust collection unit as well as a load of pitch pine, douglas fir, elm and oak. A lot of the timber will find its way into the woodburner but there are some gems hidden in there. Not bad for £170.0020250216_151835.jpg20250216_115429.jpg20250216_115434.jpg20250216_115532.jpg20250216_115655.jpg20250216_151817.jpg
 
Nice haul, well done. You might like to consider obscuring the numberplate on your Dacia
 
Heppa filters are available for dust extractors, I never knew but I wished I’d had them when I was running my big machine, definitely worth having.
My extractor over here is about the size of that one and works really well.
 
I've done a coupla small bits in pitch pine and lovely though it is, it's so full of resin (turpentine was made from it I believe) it's really difficult to glue as well as the resin gumming up everything it comes into contact with...router cutters, sandpaper, saw blades etc etc. Approach with caution - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
I've done a coupla small bits in pitch pine and lovely though it is, it's so full of resin (turpentine was made from it I believe) it's really difficult to glue as well as the resin gumming up everything it comes into contact with...router cutters, sandpaper, saw blades etc etc. Approach with caution - Rob
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I used to work a lot in pitch pine, when I first started my apprenticeship with my dad they were pulling down a lot of the old tenements and bonded warehouses in Glasgow where we would buy pitch by the 40' lorry load (deals that mainly seemed to involve a flash gent in a flash suit, a porshe and a carpet bag full of cash). There were always queues of eager buyers chucking cash into the big open bag.
 
It might be that your small sample size was unusually resinous, Rob. I've made a whole kitchen from pitch pine, and yes, there are bits which were too much trouble to work with, but much of it was great. I suspect that reclaimed pitch pine will have settled down perfectly and would behave immaculately.
 
have you got a plan for what to do with that timber? or was it just too good to turn down and will go into stock?
 
Mike G said:
It might be that your small sample size was unusually resinous, Rob. I've made a whole kitchen from pitch pine, and yes, there are bits which were too much trouble to work with, but much of it was great. I suspect that reclaimed pitch pine will have settled down perfectly and would behave immaculately.
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That was my albeit very limited experience of Pitch Pine. Nice stuff but the bits I had were sticky to the touch with resin - Rob
 
AndyP said:
have you got a plan for what to do with that timber? or was it just too good to turn down and will go into stock?
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No plans, sorting through it theres a lot of rubbbish that's too small for anything meaningful but it'll keep the homefires burning. Other than that its into stock. He called yesterday to see if I'd take a couple of large planks of elm as he's nowhere to store them, I thought it would be rude to refuse.
 
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Woodbloke said:
Nice haul. On your way home I hope you took the Charnwood P/T to the dump! :ROFLMAO: - Rob
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Rob, you are becoming an entrenched grump!🙂 I have the Elecktra Beckum version of that P/T-er (having graduated through a rough old Clarke 'lunchbox' and then the sublime [but Concorde-landing loudness] DeWalt 733) and it works just fine! It's the pre-microswitch version and, for the limited amount of timber preparation I do, and the space I have available, it's cool.

Y.M.M.V. as LibbyR is reputed not to have said.

Unless, your time in the traces at Haxminster gave you an inside line on some quality issue?
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Unless, your time in the traces at Haxminster gave you an inside line on some quality issue?
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EB's aren't in the same dismal league as Charnwood stuff Sam. Some years ago I had a natter with Keith Thompson (now retired) at Ax who was ic of the technical side of all their range of workshop equipment. He told me in no uncertain terms to stay well clear of any Charnwood machinery as they use the cheapest of 'el cheapo' components in their kit. Case in point; I foolishly bought a W619 tablesaur, which on the face of it was a very reasonable price. However the main trunion bearings on said saw clapped out on me within two months of light use in 'shop. It was moved rapidly on very soon afterwards - Rob
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Rob, you are becoming an entrenched grump!🙂 I have the Elecktra Beckum version of that P/T-er (having graduated through a rough old Clarke 'lunchbox' and then the sublime [but Concorde-landing loudness] DeWalt 733) and it works just fine! It's the pre-microswitch version and, for the limited amount of timber preparation I do, and the space I have available, it's cool.
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The green EB machines are still preferred by hobbyists here as opposed to the current budget machines. When I was looking for a spindle moulder that would take up the least amount of floor space and still fit down the stairs to my basement shop, the choices for new machines were limited. The EB TF-904 was ideal, and I found a guy two hours north of me who specialized in the complete EB line. Every machine that leaves his shop is completely rebuilt, including rewinding the motor, and comes with a two-year warranty.

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Michael Klein bought a brewery in Malsfeld that went out of business and started converting the support buildings into a refurbishment center for all EB machines. He put me on the wait list for the TF-904 and about a year later, I received a notice that my machine would be ready in a week. When I picked it up, the S/M looked like it had just left the factory. Unfortunately, he didn't have a power feeder available, but I drove away with the TF-904, sliding table kit, infeed and outfeed extension tables, and all of the original accessories. I bought a new Robland RAV 32 power feeder from a different vendor and it was a perfect fit on the TF-904.

If I had know about Michael's business a few years earlier, I would have made different choices in my shop machinery. Prior to Brexit, he used to have customers in the UK, but the punishing shipping costs made it too costly for the buyers.
 
Woodbloke said:
EB's aren't in the same dismal league as Charnwood stuff Sam. Some years ago I had a natter with Keith Thompson (now retired) at Ax who was ic of the technical side of all their range of workshop equipment. He told me in no uncertain terms to stay well clear of any Charnwood machinery as they use the cheapest of 'el cheapo' components in their kit. Case in point; I foolishly bought a W619 tablesaur, which on the face of it was a very reasonable price. However the main trunion bearings on said saw clapped out on me within two months of light use in 'shop. It was moved rapidly on very soon afterwards - Rob
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I must have got one of the better examples of that collector Rob, the law of averages suggests there must be some.
I've had it well over 20 years and the previous owner a mate bought it second hand and owned it a long time in his woodworking business and it was heavily used. So 40 -50 years at least as a guess without issues apart from a torn bag ( :rolleyes: ) is pretty good going for a cr*p machine.
 
Woodbloke said:
EB's aren't in the same dismal league as Charnwood stuff Sam. Some years ago I had a natter with Keith Thompson (now retired) at Ax who was ic of the technical side of all their range of workshop equipment. He told me in no uncertain terms to stay well clear of any Charnwood machinery as they use the cheapest of 'el cheapo' components in their kit. C
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Good to clarify, Bob. Thank you. It makes me go all fuzzy in the woodworking department (thank you Dawn French) to know I have a 'goodun'.
 
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