Hello All
For the last 20 odd years i have run a 4 man joinery doing our own specialised projects but now its time to downsize as my last joiner is retiring and i have decided to sell the lovely big kit which i have esembled over the years so i have come looking for downsizing advice my intension is to build a new workshop purely for myself around 6m x 5m so pretty small and also single phase ..My current setup is a beautiful vintage Guillet 7.6 ft surface planer with a matching 24" thicknesser i started off with a sedgewich PB lovely little mechine and now i will return to something simarly however i note now there are spiral blocks fitted to mechines such as the Axminster 260/310 planer thicknessers and some chinese makes etc i am not adversed to the far eastern good quality kit as although the majority of my kit is watkin , Guillet , sedgewich some years ago we purchased a new europac tilting and sliding bed spindle which has run faultlessly .. so apologies for the ramble but the question is are things such as the spiral blocks worth having ? in terms of setting i know they are easier to setup but that dosnt bother me the info says they are quite a bit quieter and also the the finish is smoother when compared to traditoinal blocks so it would be good to hear from someone who has experience of both standard blocks and the spirals also i am stepping down from 3 phase does running on single phase create any problems as regards power ?.
The Axminster trade planer thicknessers both 260 and 310 look pretty good for the money with cast beds ect any comments on these or alternatives would be useful
Many thanks in advance ....
For the last 20 odd years i have run a 4 man joinery doing our own specialised projects but now its time to downsize as my last joiner is retiring and i have decided to sell the lovely big kit which i have esembled over the years so i have come looking for downsizing advice my intension is to build a new workshop purely for myself around 6m x 5m so pretty small and also single phase ..My current setup is a beautiful vintage Guillet 7.6 ft surface planer with a matching 24" thicknesser i started off with a sedgewich PB lovely little mechine and now i will return to something simarly however i note now there are spiral blocks fitted to mechines such as the Axminster 260/310 planer thicknessers and some chinese makes etc i am not adversed to the far eastern good quality kit as although the majority of my kit is watkin , Guillet , sedgewich some years ago we purchased a new europac tilting and sliding bed spindle which has run faultlessly .. so apologies for the ramble but the question is are things such as the spiral blocks worth having ? in terms of setting i know they are easier to setup but that dosnt bother me the info says they are quite a bit quieter and also the the finish is smoother when compared to traditoinal blocks so it would be good to hear from someone who has experience of both standard blocks and the spirals also i am stepping down from 3 phase does running on single phase create any problems as regards power ?.
The Axminster trade planer thicknessers both 260 and 310 look pretty good for the money with cast beds ect any comments on these or alternatives would be useful
Many thanks in advance ....