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Guineafowl21 wrote:I can’t see, in principle, why it couldn’t be fitted with a smaller motor.
Guineafowl21 wrote:I wonder if those Martin bearings are an exercise in engineering prowess, rather than a pragmatic choice - after all, good standard versions will last literally a lifetime, and are cheap and easy to replace. My Wadkin RB ones are likely the best part of 100 years old, and there is no play or roughness.
heimlaga wrote:My SCM l'Invincibile T160 has a 5,5kW motor. I have found the large motor to be an advantage when running profiles using for hours on end using the feeder. A smaller motor would run very hot inside a cabinet shaped machine frame under those conditions.
wallace wrote:You never know it might go for peanuts
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154471313189 ... Swo35gr6BD
Guineafowl21 wrote:wallace wrote:You never know it might go for peanuts
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154471313189 ... Swo35gr6BD
Watching!
One wonders if there is a tax on pictures and words...
Guineafowl21 wrote:I’m still tempted by that SCM T120C, no power feed but nice sliding table. 11/4” spindle but with a possibility of turning it to 30mm. If I can get it for £1600 +VAT it’s unlikely I’ll need to upgrade again
Guineafowl21 wrote:No tilt, which is fine, and no reverse, but I’m sure I could use a DPDT switch to add reverse.
wallace wrote:I think there's abit shill bidding going on with that wadkin. There's no way you get 59 bids
MJ80 wrote:I'd like to post a word of warning on this subject. I had a big Italien cmc machine when I bought into the trend system and got it on a 30mm shaft. I used top hats to reduce my existing tooling down. No problem.
I sold that machine and setup and got a little SCM which was lovely and running 1 1/4. So I took all the 30 heads I'd got my neighbouring engineering shop and had them taken out to run on 1 1/4. Happy days.
Then I moved to Germany and had all my tooling in boxes for ages. I picked up a really old cast iron Panhans (which has the most awful insane fence ever) with a powerfeed as an interim machine to get up and running. Took a profile block out, saw 30mm and dropped it on the shaft, set up ready to go. Turned the machine on and get wound up, starts making the most awful noise and the shaft comes rising up out the machine and it the whole machine starts going for a walk across the floor. Needless to say by this point I've hit the deck and doing everything I can to kill the power.
So lesson learned, try not to forget when you have had a bright idea.
Guineafowl21 wrote:Apparently all the spares for the SCM T120C are obsolete.
Spoke to a very nice chap from the saw centre, Glasgow, an ex-machinery engineer. He looked at the listing for me - bargepoles were nicely mentioned, at that price - and pointed out the original paint around the SCM label that dates it to late 70s. Someone’s done it up in tasteful Makita blue.
Trevanion wrote:Wot? A man that buys a 90-year-old surface planer is scared of a ~40-year-old spindle moulder?
Guineafowl21 wrote:Missing bits - table inserts, extraction outlet, Shaw guards, 30mm spindle = not worth £2k plus VAT plus delivery, I would humbly say.
Guineafowl21 wrote:Aha! Trying to get me to buy a Martin now, are we?
Guineafowl21 wrote:Still thinking about the T110 with the blurry pics. I bet I could do that up and shift it on.
Guineafowl21 wrote:All that tooling, power feed and free delivery! Good deal.
The SCM 110 is on its way to me, or I might have gone for that.
Trevanion wrote:Guineafowl21 wrote:All that tooling, power feed and free delivery! Good deal.
The SCM 110 is on its way to me, or I might have gone for that.
Why not both?
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