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PetePenman

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Can anybody please tell me where i might obtain a numbered parts list for the Sedgwick 571 mortising machine?

The only one I can find does have a parts list but in the accompanying exploded drawing the individual parts are not numbered, so it's difficult to identify certain parts. Thanks.
 
What are you trying to figure out or find Pete? I've got an old early model 571 at home and three later models in work so I know them pretty well inside and out.
 
Thanks for the replies, although I'm not actually looking for any parts.

I've just finished a complete rebuild and restoration of a Sedgwick 571 and I wanted to write a detailed article about it, as it may help others.

But being a bit of a 'stickler' I wanted to ensure I used the correct terminology. I do have a manual that lists all the parts, and an exploded drawing, but the parts are not numbered on the drawing.
 
Cool! I don't think I've seen a restoration thread of a 571 anywhere here or on UKW.I've been meaning to restore my old model and convert the old bushing method of holding the augers to something like an ER32 collet holder, I don't think I'd be able to fit a jacobs chuck like the newer models.

Funnily enough, I've just bought a Multico Morticer in a sorry state, so that's got priority over the Sedgwick for restoration :D

If you've got photos of said parts I'm sure the boys here would be more than happy to have a punt at identifying them.
 
I too had a Multico in a sorry state; with a Hoover motor, for full restoration. Not a bad machine but I definitely prefer using a Sedgwick.
A quick before and after photo.
 

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I can't help with the information you are looking for but I can say you have done an excellent job with the restoration.
 
Must be something different about me. I just love those hand wheels!! :)
 
Pete & Trevanion.

I try to maintain a little library of machine manuals for use of forum members see link on top right of each page.

We have a manual for the Sedgwick 571 in the forum drop box but I see it is the one showing a chuck (no part names either) so I assume it is the later model.

Do either of you have an electronic copy of the manual for the earlier machine that you could send me please
(email in the footer of the message) so I can put it in the forum manual library please?

Any other manuals we don't have would be most welcome on the grounds they might help someone out one day.

Thanks

Bob
 
Sorry Bob, I haven't got a manual for the 571. To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen a manual for any of the Sedgwick kit pre-1980s.

Largely, between the early and late models nothing really has changed on them design-wise so the later manuals do cover the older ones mostly. I think the main differences between my old model and a newer one would be the whompingly heavy triangular cast iron base instead of stamped sheet metal, spring balanced head instead of a counterweight and chain, All metal handwheels and small components instead of plastic and the obsolete bushing/collet system which was replaced by a chuck, and the depth stop on the older model is cast into the head and bumps against a block locked onto a rod rather than an adjustable rod on the head which bumps into a block with a flip-away stop.

I need to properly scan my Multico TH Thicknesser, L and S Surface planer manual and turn it into a PDF.
 
9fingers":2iz9vdak said:
Pete & Trevanion.

I try to maintain a little library of machine manuals for use of forum members see link on top right of each page.

We have a manual for the Sedgwick 571 in the forum drop box but I see it is the one showing a chuck (no part names either) so I assume it is the later model.

Do either of you have an electronic copy of the manual for the earlier machine that you could send me please
(email in the footer of the message) so I can put it in the forum manual library please?

Any other manuals we don't have would be most welcome on the grounds they might help someone out one day.

Thanks

Bob
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Bob, my machine is the model with the chuck and so is my manual. so I can't help but they very similar apart from the chuck.
 
Pete - re your Multico , thats the same model I have if yours is a "Kine Engineering " series 3 ( 1947 model ) , mine was fairly well up together when I bought it , painted in a dark metallic blue , it didn't need much doing but I have replaced a few bits as a facelift ( with the help of Multico in France and also WDS ) . . Mine is also on a wooden stand with splayed legs .
I'm interested to see what yours has a depth-stop , any chance of a picture of the right-hand side ?
Steve
PS pics of mine in the For Sale section on here .
 
I think my new acquisition might be in a sorrier state than what your Multico started as, Pete! :lol:

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