I recently purchased an Emco Rex B30 planer thicknesser. It was very cheap, primarily (I thought) because it had been pretty badly treated, left to corrode in a humid barn for years. Turns out the seller knew exactly what he was doing, and "to be honest we've never used it as a planer" actually meant "the infeed table mechanism is broken, and some halfwit has taken it apart without a clue what they were doing..."
Anyway, the upshot is that a couple of crucial parts of the infeed rise/fall mechanism are broken, plus I'm working blind as I don't know for certain how it looked when new.
Does anyone have (a) a manual for the Emco Rex B30 or, (b) any spares or, (c) a B30 rotting in their garden that I could harvest for parts?
Any help or advice would be appreciated!
(Incidentally the rest of it cleaned up very nicely, and it runs really well, just a shame I can't plane anything accurately...)
Anyway, the upshot is that a couple of crucial parts of the infeed rise/fall mechanism are broken, plus I'm working blind as I don't know for certain how it looked when new.
Does anyone have (a) a manual for the Emco Rex B30 or, (b) any spares or, (c) a B30 rotting in their garden that I could harvest for parts?
Any help or advice would be appreciated!
(Incidentally the rest of it cleaned up very nicely, and it runs really well, just a shame I can't plane anything accurately...)