Commissioning a 'used' Sedgwick planer/thicknesser

[RogerS]

I just acquired an old one like yours. It's green though. It is a wonderful machine however mine does not have any dust hoods! Can they be gotten? I've contacted Sedwick by e-mail but haven't heard back from them and i'm getting tired of vacuuming up everything after planning.

You got a nice machine there.

Try phoning them. Emails tend not to get answered.

 

[jhwbigley]

I just acquired an old one like yours. It's green though. It is a wonderful machine however mine does not have any dust hoods! Can they be gotten? I've contacted Sedwick by e-mail but haven't heard back from them and i'm getting tired of vacuuming up everything after planning.

You got a nice machine there.

why not make one out of ply or mdf?

simples

John-Henry

 

[DaveL]

I only have an old Perform planner thicknesser, used in thicknessing mode only after buying a Multico planner, the dust hood did not fit well so I made one:

I have the Axminster Perform version of this machine and could not get the dust collection 'thingy' to fit in thicknessing mode, so I made my own from scrap bits of timber and a plastic dust collection fitting, all held in place with two small clamps.

Works quite well. Note there is a bit of foam rubber stuffed in the slot of the blade guard, give a better suck on the path though the cutter head.
When machining wide boards, you do have watch that the long shavings don't get caught on the fitting, I have only had a problem with full width sycamore doing this.

As John-Henry says :

simples