brian75137

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Does anyone know where I can find a handwheel for an older Sears planer. I have everything for it except the handwheel to raise/lower the cutter head. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

-- Brian in Denver

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Hello Brian,

Let me welcome to LJs. I am sure that you will find being a member of this group to be both a rewarding and an inspirational part of your woodworking adventure.

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Welcome to LJ’s. We are here to help you with your woodworking endeavors. Feel free to ask for advise. But Be aware…this site can be very addictive…………LOL

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Since I need a few more posts before I can respond to other’s comments I thought that I’d post as couple on what I’ trying to do.

I saw that Todd was a tool collector nut, so I thought that I’d coment on what I’ve done recently re tools.

I have an old Craftsman 4” jointer planer, which I haven ’ begun to use as yet. Then I came upon a older older 6” jointer planer which had been rusting in someone’s yard for several decades. It too, is a Craftsman and probable weighs 40 lbs. It has only 3 pieces – all cast iron – which were coated with about a 1/6” of rust. By the judicious use of a steel sanding wheel, I was able to remove most of the rust. The lots of elbow grease with some sandpaper – 80 grit down to 150 grit – removed most of the rest of the rust. Subsequently, since I wanted both top surfaces to be smooth and flat, I taped a full sheet of 100 grit sandpaper onto a 9” x 13” piece of plate glass and began to lap the surfaces. Boring thought it was, I was able to remove all the rust there and almost all of the original tool marks.

This jointer is so old that it only has one moveable table – the out feed. I painted everything except the top surfaces with gray epoxy rust proofing paint and removed all of the rusted hex head boltzs and replaced them with hex socket head bolts. I didn’t go to grade 8 bolxts, since I didn’t think that I needed that strength.

The cutting head has 3 blades which are held in place with 3 “gibs” for each cutting blade. I’m going to get them sharpened before using them, as they don’t feel that sharp now. I’ve located a person ,here in Denver, who is supposed to be good – we’ll see. It looks as though $0.50 per inch is the going price for sharpening steel and $1.00 per for carbide. I’m curious as to how good a sharpening job I’ll get at that price. Does anyone have sharpening prices to which I can compare?

That’s enough for this comment for now.

Best to everyone and thanks for the welcome to the site.

Brian75137

brian75137@yahoo.com

-- Brian in Denver