Oliver Jointer

[rvieceli]

876 miles, 15 hours of driving, about 2 hours of disconnecting, loading and strapping down and this gorgeous 1945 16 inch Oliver Machinery jointer is now sitting safely in my shop. Can’t wait to get it set up.

In its old shop

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[rmwarren]

Wow. How many Busch's does it take to lift that off the ground?  [poke]

Jealous.

RMW

 

[rvieceli]

[member=8712]Richard/RMW[/member]

2200 pounds of wonderful steel goodness  [big grin]

Ron

 

[Birdhunter]

I need a Lazy Boy in my shop.

 

[rvieceli]

Got the Rotary phase converter rewired for my shop. Updated the connection from the RPC to the mag switch for the jointer. And it lives. Takes about 2 minutes to coast to a stop. Gotta get some wax on the bed and put the fence back. I think the fence weighs more than a hundred pounds.  [eek] Coming along.  [big grin]

Ron

 

[Cheese]

Got the Rotary phase converter rewired for my shop. Updated the connection from the RPC to the mag switch for the jointer. And it lives. Takes about 2 minutes to coast to a stop. Gotta get some wax on the bed and put the fence back. I think the fence weighs more than a hundred pounds.  [eek] Coming along.  [big grin]

Nice piece of equipment Ron...what's the HP rating needed to run this beast?

 

[rvieceli]

It has a 5 HP 3 phase direct drive. A 10hp RPC should do fine but the previous owner had it hooked up to a 15HP unit and I got that. Needs a 50 amp 240 circuit for it.

Ron

 

[JonathanJung]

Looks great. What did you give for it?

 

[kevinculle]

That is one beautiful beast that should have another 75 years of service in her with proper maintenance.  I would bet you are already there but if not, this site is essential.

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