planer / thicknesser set up Wadkin RM

[@GFPWoodworkingMachinery]

Incredible man! Thank you for the insight on this machine .

[@phooesnax]

Complex machine. Glad it landed there

[@garethhoward6689]

Old is gold and every time I'm sold. In nz these go dirt cheap nobody doing woodwork they would rather buy some crsp from China ,keep up the videos your a inperation.

[@jackEnglishmachines]

thank you, but I do enjoy the vintage

[@jeffccr3620]

Tools like this is why I hate Grizzly with happened to America I grew up in

[@motaman8074]

Ummm... whatever Jack says.

[@jackEnglishmachines]

you could be at two you'll have to get someone to follow you. Of course you'll have to put up some videos.

[@motaman8074]

@@jackEnglishmachines I meant it as a compliment

[@jackEnglishmachines]

@@motaman8074 sorry buddy I mistaken you for someone else.

[@michael.schuler]

You can precisely extend either table of this machine, or both, regardless of depth of cut adjustments, by following the method of my 1990 U.S. patent #4817693. As a youthful pro woodworker, I developed an industrial product line from the patent but had insufficient funding or business experience for my startup to survive. However, you can readily fab the necessary components from materials available in most shops. The principle is elegant and all but foolproof: All you need is a dead straight beam, a work support ledge fastened to the bottom of the beam, and a telescopic leg attached to the ledge to maintain its elevation as dictated by the beam. The beam takes its alignment from its direct attachment to the top of the machine table from which it is cantilevered. Sequence of setup is key to the method: First, the machine table itself dictates the plane of the bottom of the beam and top of the ledge. Finally, the telescopic leg is dropped down from the ledge to simply maintain the elevation dictated by the first two elements. In the case of small (jobsite) machines, the fully deployed extension(s) also serve as outriggers, effectively rendering it safe and accurate to machine pieces on short jointers so long that they would otherwise tip the machine over. For beasts like your Wadkin, the telescopic leg can be omitted altogether, pending the stiffness of the beam. In my current shop, I have a 12" long bed jointer. But when I want to need to straighten long pieces (16'+) for a deck or a beam, I am able to extend the infeed table itself to as long as 8'.

[@jackEnglishmachines]

planer is already 8 feet

[@michael.schuler]

@jackEnglishmachines Understood. Yet for extra long stock, an infeed table ideally as long as possible (in theory, as long as the work piece itself), allows staightening in fewer passes and more accurately than even with the 4'-5' infeed tables found on the biggest jointers. One man can handle really massive stock solo and stress-free. Anyway, the Wadkins you've brought back to life are absolute dream machines. Only place I've ever even seen any is the pics in Ernest Joyce's classic Encyclopedia of Furniture Making, never in real life. Cheers!