Sedgwick mb

[chris lewis joinery]

Hi guy
I have just bought a second hand Sedgwick mb planer thicknesser it is in very good condition for its age,I was just wondering if anybody knew a way to line the beds up perfectly as I had to take it to bits to move and its just not quite right at the moment and does anybody know where the greasing nipples are I can't find them for love nor money
Cheers chris

 

[RogerS]

What vintage is it? Green or a later model in a rather fetching shade of blue and grey? Those beds are heavy 'mothers', aren't they !

When you say 'not quite right' can you expand a bit more?

What grease nipples are you referring to?

I can thoroughly recommend getting the Barke Turnblades from Cutting Solutions. Once lined up, you never need to bother to reset blade height again.

 

[chris lewis joinery]

hi
it is the green model ,the out feed table seems to drop off by 1mm at the end for some reason causing a slight bow in the timber and i cant find any grease points does it need greasing?the tables are bloody heavy epescially when you are by yourself.
cheers chris

 

[carlb40]

There is a link to a MB manual in here, but think it is the newer type.

http://www.daltonsmachines.com/downloads.html

But it does go into greasing and adjusting towards the end, might help?

EDIT

Seems a couple members on here have/ had the MB so might be able to help further.

sedgwick-mb-manual-t27527.html

 

[chris lewis joinery]

thank you very helpful
cheers chris

 

[longinthetooth]

Does it have the fixed outfeed table or the adjustable one Chris?

 

[chris lewis joinery]

Hi
The out feed table is fixed

 

[longinthetooth]

Unbolt the outfeed table (don't drop it on your foot!) and if you're good at filing, file the mounting flanges to correct (trial and error). Or shim them (means you don't even have to take all the bolts out. Shim material can often be found lying around - sellotape tins, biscuit tins etc. Use a metre long engineers straight edge to check the level. Vernier calipers good for assessing shim stock. Think 0.25mm as a start point.

 

[ndbrown]

I have the smaller PT255 model with the fixed outfeed table and just completed lining up the tables last month with an inspection grade straight edge. The out feed initially looked to be just less than 1mm low at the extreme left hand end of the table but this was with the original shims fitted in the position they were before I started rebuilding the machine (I could see the marks where the shims had been sitting between the two bolt holes). I moved the shims to the left of the mounting face and the tables aligned perfectly. Looks like someone had removed the table and repositioned them at some time in the past 30 years. It has restored my faith in Sedgwick when I was able to get them perfectly in line. The combination of the table length and the mounting position means that you dont need much of a shim thickness to work.

my rebuild is covered here, albeit I know it a smaller Sedgwick than the MB model you have.

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/sedgwick-pt255-strip-down-and-rebuild-t66864.html

 

[eribaMotters]

If you are having trouble buying material to shim the tables, get a cheap set of feeler gauges, like used for spark plug adjustment. I cut them up and used them to adjust the tables on my now sold MB.

Colin

 

[longinthetooth]

When you've sorted the surfacing tables (not just along but corner to opposite corner), another issue might be whether the thickness table is parallel laterally (that's across the machine) to the cutterblock. Or, more accurately, to the knives in the block, which have been set from the reference of the outfeed table.

When you set up a machine, you have to visualise a logical order of priority, dep on the machine construction. In this case, the cutterblock is the first given (non-adjustable). It's a compound business but rationalising it can save hours of toil & despair (relatively).

 

[RogerS]

The other thing also to be aware of is that the infeed table can sag as it is adjusted to give your cutting depth. Mine does slightly and I just work round it. The manual refers to setting some gibs but I can't find them!