deema
Established Member
I’ve been looking at the Sedgwick range of machines online. They appear to have changed the design of their planner thicknessers. Has anyone got one of the new ones? Or seen one in the flesh?
They originally design had cast iron sides on to which the planner beds bolted. It was only the lower blue base section that was a fabrication that contained the motor(s). The latest machines appear to have adopted fabrications for almost everything with only a small cast iron seating that the beds attach to that sits on top of the fabricated sides that were once cast iron.
Have they changed the design?or is it just my poor interpretation of the images?
A good change that I can see is that the new PT come with a choice of either Tersa or spiral blocks with Tersa being the standard fit. Fixed knives are no longer an option.
The thicknesser rise and fall handle has also been moved from the side to the end. I know some didn’t like it on the side, but I’m a Luddite who preferred it there. For me it was a bonus as it beat banging my head on the table when ever I used it on my last machine that had it at the end,
They originally design had cast iron sides on to which the planner beds bolted. It was only the lower blue base section that was a fabrication that contained the motor(s). The latest machines appear to have adopted fabrications for almost everything with only a small cast iron seating that the beds attach to that sits on top of the fabricated sides that were once cast iron.
Have they changed the design?or is it just my poor interpretation of the images?
A good change that I can see is that the new PT come with a choice of either Tersa or spiral blocks with Tersa being the standard fit. Fixed knives are no longer an option.
The thicknesser rise and fall handle has also been moved from the side to the end. I know some didn’t like it on the side, but I’m a Luddite who preferred it there. For me it was a bonus as it beat banging my head on the table when ever I used it on my last machine that had it at the end,