New old planer

Nice. I’ll bet you do more than clean it up though. You can’t help it, it’s in your blood.

-- Jerry Boshear, Professional Kitchen Designer, amature woodworker.

I’ve been on the lookout for something similar to replace my ryobi lunch box. I hope I find one like this. Great find.

-- There is nothing like the sound of a well tuned hand plane. - http://timetestedtools.wordpress.com (timetestedtools at hotmail dot c0m)

Uhh? Do ya think that’ll be big enough for ya?
What a beast!
Bill

-- bill@magraphics.us

I dont know Jerry. The gear box on this one is fairly complicated.

BILL It is only a 13” wide planer. The one I really wanted was 18” and weighed in at about 1500#. It also sold for about $1 a pound, more than I could afford to go.

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Well, the planer has some problems. Major problems unfortunately. This particular model has an achilles heel, it is known as the intermediate gear that drives the cutter head and feed rollers. It is made of bronze and known to go bad. It would appear that someone used the incorrect lubrication and burnt the gears up.

Now I need to find a machinist who is capable of reproducing the gear without having to take out a second on the house

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Ken,
from the photo the gear seems to be in OK shape – just haev some burnt oil on it. what makes you think the gear is broken? does it have broken teeth? is it not meshing properly with the mating gear? does it run freely? or is it stuck?

PM me with location if you need help finding a local machinist.

-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

The gear teeth should be flat PurpLev, not worn like they are. Very common problem on those machines. Here is what a good one looks like (borrowed from a 22-101 restoration thread over at OWWM: http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=114604 ):

Cheers,
Brad

-- Brad in FL - To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid

Sharon…..I will clean up the gears as best I can and run the machine as is. There are some other smaller issues that also need to be addressed, table roller bearings, cleaning up the electrical, complete teardown and look at ALL the bearings and bushings, paint and so on. I was hoping this would be a quick clean up and start using, oh well. In the mean time while looking for the gears I can do the rest.

Brad…...There has been a lot of talk on OWWM about this planer and even some fixes from the original engineer who designed the planer. I am hoping I can come up with a gear set, I would really hate to have to part the machine out and scrap it.

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The dreaded bronze 22-101 gear! Nice looking planer except for the “convex” gear.

Tough break. We had something similar to this when I was in high school. The feed didn’t work well. We were a bunch of farm kids in there (including the instructor). One day one of the guys said if you would grease that thing it might work. In a day or so it was working. He used a grease gun and lubricated it. Funny the things that stick with us 50 years later. Good luck on the gear. Someone out there makes or has that gear. Keep looking.