Recent content by fergalb

Thanks, I haven't given her a good go yet as the weather is rubbish here at the moment so she is just sitting in the hall till it picks up "much to the delight of my wife" :D

Well she is back in business :D

I was having a hard time finding a cover for the planer so I called up the guy and asked him to keep an eye out for any aluminium parts that he thinks might belong to the machine so yesterday he called me to say he had a box of stuff for me to collect :D most of the stuff was just rubbish but I did...

Yes it's original I got this from the guys on the yahoo group. I was thinking of cutting off the other two legs :shock: and putting on locking casters as it's quite a heavy lump to move around on my own and I will have to store it in a small shed and bring it out when I need it, I'm not after...

Well I started to strip it down today, I'm in two minds whether to build a new table as two of the legs had been cut off :roll: plus it has a lot of dings and a bit of woodworm or I might just fix it up a bit and leave some of the battle scars for character :D as it will still be used as a...

Thanks for the reply and the link. I have joined up with the Yahoo group and they have been a great help already :D I now just have find out what parts are missing and how hard the will be to find like the guide arm that goes across the planer :( I will start stripping it down when the kids go...

These might be better photos.

Thanks for that much appreciated.

The guy that built the boat "Jimmy furey" made another program this year at the age of 85 where he took on an apprentice Cathy MacAleavey mother of Annalise Murphy Olympian to build one last boat, it was shown on RTE Nationwide the link is gone now :( but the trade lives on :D

I came across this site inca-table-saw-restoration-t35555.html while I was looking for a bit of info on a INCA work station, I do a bit of boat building and restoration as you can see from my links below and today I was given this and thought it would be nice to bring her back to her former...