Recent content by ivor

Thanks to all who chipped in to help with my problem, in the end I hammered the part straight, did a bit of filing, refitted it all back together again and ground and re-sharpened the blades. The only fiddly bit was re-setting the thicknesser bed. So even with a lump missing from the middle of...

why don't you just grind down some old files as they are hardened steel. Ones such as old saw files and also you can buy packs of small riffler type files for a couple of quid.

Thanks to Rodders for putting me right on the "pressure bar" and Brian for the link to Clasohlson/Cotech planer, very similar to mine and a good selection of spare parts but no pressure bar. There must be a lot of these machines made exactly the same but under different names (bet they're all...

I've tried the Erbauer parts number, it's the same one as in the instruction manual, says the number is no longer in use. Screwfix don't do spare parts, only replacement blades. Had a look at the link but it's not the same thing

I've had an Erbauer 052BTE planer thicknesser for about 2 yrs and it's been working great up until the other day when the piece of wood I put through the thicknesser kicked back and bent the chip breaker bar causing it to contact the blades with catastrophic consequences. Now I'm not sure I've...