Thread: Snapatap has a planer

I have been keeping an eye out for a planer for a while, and spotted this planer for sale. I was converted into a planomill by the owners father and used for decking cylinder blocks and with a jig for grinding flywheels. It still has the rack drive so I could convert it back to a planer easily.





Pros:
It's a planer
The paint is good
The slides look ok
It still has the rack drive
It has a milling head

Cons:
It has been used for grinding
It doesn't have a clapper box
I don't have room in the shed for it at the moment

Hopefully I can get a 20' container in the next couple of weeks so I can make some room in the shed.

Looks good, however you forget to mention it's size

I guess around 18" X 5 or 6 feet.

Failing you finding any place to put it, I will offer it a place in my shed for short term storage

Nice!!

Danish machine company is a new one. I assume that means its from Denmark?

In some ways a grinding machine may be more useful than a straight planer as long as the feed rates as sufficiently slow. If you can get it do do both even better.

Welcome to the club.

Cheers

Mark

Originally Posted by .RC.

Looks good, however you forget to mention it's size

I guess around 18" X 5 or 6 feet.

Failing you finding any place to put it, I will offer it a place in my shed for short term storage

Storing it at your place is a great idea, seeing as you have a slide way grinder you could regrind it while its there. Bring your truck its only a 4600km round trip
The table is 6'x20". The only info i have found on the danish machinery company is that the made a lathe in the 1920's called the Ohio. So i assume Asia is the model of the planer. The machine has a McPherson's badge on it so i assume it was sold new by them, or did they put there badge on 2nd had machinery to? I have a 1960's and i assume a 1930's McPherson's catalogue and neither have planers listed.

Try Trove...

July, 1927:

".. To investigate tho "possibilities ofthe Australian market, Mr: L. A. Jacobsen, of Copenhagen, Denmark, representing the Danish Machine Company, manufacturers of machine, tools, arrived in Sydney from the East Indies by the Tasman to-day.."

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/222486164?searchTerm=%22Danish%20machine%20company%22&searchLimits=

COOOL When you get it up and running, let us know, as I've a few pieces that need the attention of that machine.
Don't worry about a container for it, put up a leanto on the side of the shed.
Kryn

This deserves more than a like. It is f'n brilliant.

Thats very nice, I'm jealous.

The skip man isnt going to be happy when he turns up and finds this....
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Cheers Phil

Originally Posted by .RC.

Looks good, however you forget to mention it's size

I guess around 18" X 5 or 6 feet.

Failing you finding any place to put it, I will offer it a place in my shed for short term storage

its huge isnt it?

Originally Posted by snapatap

its only a 4600km round trip

but your only a six pack from me...now I know where to go when I need some planer work

Originally Posted by snapatap

Storing it at your place is a great idea, seeing as you have a slide way grinder you could regrind it while its there.

Yes that thought had occurred to me

Although Mark's absolutely mint planer is closer to you.

Originally Posted by 12bolts

The skip man isnt going to be happy when he turns up and finds this....
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Cheers Phil

I bought a couple of those skips to use as scrap bins, take them down on the ute, and they tip them out with the forklift, makes things a lot easier. I just need to paint the "WASTE CARDBOARD ONLY" out.

Originally Posted by eskimo

its huge isnt it?

Not really. I would call a 60ft planer huge.
I have a pretty warped sense of machine size. We have a 4' swing lathe, 6' vertical borer, and mill with a 6M table at work. We get customers in and they comment on how massive our machines are, i just shrug my shoulders and reply "we need bigger ones". My idea of a huge machine is when the operator gets a cabin to ride in on the machine.

Originally Posted by snapatap

Not really. I would call a 60ft planer huge.
I have a pretty warped sense of machine size. We have a 4' swing lathe, 6' vertical borer, and mill with a 6M table at work. We get customers in and they comment on how massive our machines are, i just shrug my shoulders and reply "we need bigger ones". My idea of a huge machine is when the operator gets a cabin to ride in on the machine.

is this for work??
i thought it was for home use