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Hendey metal planer, $2500, Guelph, ON

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Can you imagine having this running next to @140mower ’s power hacksaw?

Absolutely mesmerizing, and might also trigger minor earthquakes.

 
Can you imagine having this running next to @140mower ’s power hacksaw?

Absolutely mesmerizing, and might also trigger minor earthquakes.

....... and squeezed in between the two shapers....... I could maybe shift the house into a better neighborhood.
 
Cutest tool I would love to have but really have no use for!

with a brace of NEMA 34 stepper motors this would make the worlds neatest CNC router

I think I once saw a Youtube video where someone had done just that.

Late 1970's I was an apprentice in a shop that had tools that were already ...um, "very elderly"? There was a more serious planer, maybe 8 or 10 ft bed. May well have been 100 years old for all I know. I never saw it used in nearly two years, and wondered why they didn't get rid of it to free up the space for something more useful. Then one day there was a job that no other tool they had could have done...
 
Cutest tool I would love to have but really have no use for!



I think I once saw a Youtube video where someone had done just that.

Late 1970's I was an apprentice in a shop that had tools that were already ...um, "very elderly"? There was a more serious planer, maybe 8 or 10 ft bed. May well have been 100 years old for all I know. I never saw it used in nearly two years, and wondered why they didn't get rid of it to free up the space for something more useful. Then one day there was a job that no other tool they had could have done...
Keith Rucker has an on going saga trying to machine down in the bottom of a steam stoker engine. The engine is over a hundred years old as is the planer he is using. Modern machines were tried but.......
 
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