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Posted by bugbear on January 30, 2008, 10:24 am
Please log in for more thread options Nigel wrote:
> OK well I have arranged to take them up to Brian Caddy -- he estimates
> £150 for the lot EXCELLENT, I did get a price of another firm in
> Birmingham of about £400 which would also have been acceptable and
> just goes to prove that the £1750 that Scott and Sargeant wanted to
> charge is totally outrageous.
>
> Any how thanks to everyone for the input.
Can you report back on how it goes?
BugBear
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> planer/thicknesser and can pretty much do everything myself (even
> managed to get the main rollers which are 28" x 3" onto the HLV-BK
> for truing and re-cutting the serrations). However I would really
> like to get the 2 surfacing and the thicknessing tables re-ground.
> They are not in bad condition i.e. no nasty dings but they are worn --
> the infeed surface table rolls off by about 0.3 mm and the
> thicknessing table is hollow in the centre by about the same amount.
> I have been asking around for some time but cannot find anyone with
> big enough surface grinding machines to cope. The surfacing tables
> are about 30" x 20" and the thicknessing table is about 48" x 16"
> they both have registration surfaces on the underside which are
> parallel to the top surface so mounting them up shouldnt be to
> difficult -- see attached pics. My workshop is in North London but I
> can get the tables into the back of my old Volvo estate or hire a van
> to take them to be machined -- obviously I would prefer not to travel
> much more than say 150 miles each way and I dont need toolroom
> accuracy grinding but it would be a real shame not to get this done
> after all the other work I have done and I sure as hell cant afford a
> new machine that approaches the quality and solidity of the Wadkin.
> So if anyone can help me with some addresses of grinding shops that
> could do the work I would be very much obliged.
>
> TIA Nigel