My brother and I just closed up our wood working factory a few years ago. We had a 20" Powermatic Planer exactly like that one and used it heavily for about 40 years, 2 shifts 6 days a week. We put millions (YES MILLIONS) of board feet of lumber thru it and it never failed us. Nothing ever broke on it. Had to replace feed rollers on it when they WORE OUT and drive belts of course. I gave it a couple of shots of grease 3 times a week. A magnificent rugged dependable machine. When we closed up the factory we sold it to a sawmill where it is still being used today with no problems.
Good morning Mr. Rucker! You know you have made it to the big time when folks rush to point out your mistakes to everyone who will listen. Thank you for the great video and information. Have a great day!
Morbid Iron Deficiency, hahahah or LOS (Lack of Starrett) for short. God knows I suffer from LOS and SEN (Starrett Envy Syndrome!) But I just have a little shop.
Hi Keith, I’m a millwright myself so I want to tell you about the V-block with a chain on it. It is only one from a pair and it is used for alignment of couplings between a motor and gearbox or other effectors.
Very nice collection of tools. As the other gentleman said, that chain clamp is used to align shafts. I used one similar to that for many years to align couplings in the power plant.
Nothing wrong with odds and ends ... always a chance to learn something! Even if it was something as simple as the storm update. Dont know you or Adam but it's still nice to know all is well.
That's an extremely nice wood planer. Years ago, the wood shop on Fort Knox (at that time, they did all the various wood working for the facilities and post housing) had a planer identical to your planer... Great video.... 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The odds & ends videos are great, don’t worry about people who say otherwise. Can’t wait to see the new machine coming into the shop, it’s been teased for a while!
when grampa died i got most of his tools including his lathe. in his tools I found a tachometer for a Norden Bombsight with the radium painted dial! pretty neat
What is neat about the starrett plumb bob is they have mercury in them which helps them settle down faster. We used them to set center line of turbines in power houses that had to be +/- .002. This was before lasers in the 1970’s. I don’t believe starrett offers them any longer but would like to have one.
The bicycle chain clamp is to align drive and driven equipment using the two coupling halves surfaces as the reference for the equipment. Used thus, we can achieve a horizontal, vertical, and axial alignment with one set up. Used properly, this procedure will even show run - out of drive or driven shafts and couplings.
Keith, I have one of those "manual" Tachometers, mine is a Jeager. One of the history notes for those is pretty cool. It was used by WW2 Airmen to calibrate the bombardier sight during a bombing run.
Last time I saw a plumbob was during a Department of Trade Stability inspection on a heavily modified 50meter fishing vessel I was Captain of, they suspend them over a drum of oil to deaden movement and they move heavy weights about and measure the deflection, everyone on board has to stand on centreline during measurment. They are still used today even will all the electronic gadjets we have.
I must need to increase the search radius on craigslist because I’ve been looking for a reasonably priced bullet Vice for over a year. I’m in Greenville, SC, so I must have barely missed it!!! Great find though, Keith!
Gday Kieth, very nice starrett collection, then new planer is a great looking machine, I can’t wait to see what you have forming in on the weekend, hopefully you will get time to shoot some video, cheers Matty
I still daydream about stumbling across a Wilton vise in need of a resto. All I can find are amateur antique dealer impersonators trying to pay off their house on a single sale...
Looking forward to seeing the new machines! As always, awesome video Keith! Some nice new tools to add to the collection! Stay safe down there! Dan @6-4_Fab Glen Rock, PA.
That Powermatic planer is one nice machine, especially with the grinding fixture. With proper maintenance it will last you a lifetime. Never knew that Starrett made a plumbob or a burnished.
You made me feel a few years younger when you said “almost 40 years ago” about the Starret plumb bob. I was born 1978. The previous owner got it in 1979. It’s 2020.
I have the 8” on my table at work. Only bad thing is whom ever was using before I started there had welded the body to the swivel base. Other then that it’s in good shape. I still use it every day.
Wow time is in short supply and its amazing how many irons you have in the fire! Still hoping at some point to see your used oil fired kiln/furnace in use before mine is done! I am very close to having everything needed for mine. And even have the bace and the bottem refractory cement poured.
Years ago, I made two snap-on vises into one, and I offered it to a friend of mine. He said at his age he had enough vices. I told him it wasn't that kind. He just chuckled.
I was fortunate enough, to pick up a 6 inch Wilton vice, up in West Virginia for 75 dollars, I can’t tell that it was ever used, so they are out there.
That burnishing tool (Not by Starret) is common in the organ industry. It is used to curve brass reeds for organ pipes. Organ builders have used those for many hundreds of years.
Vast difference between the 18" and 20" in their ruggedness. Also they must be properly adjusted for the feed roller heights, makes ALL the difference in the world in how the planer feeds and eliminating snipe.
@@lennartandre3831 I know how to adjust a planer but when they are made with poor quality control... The pressure bar on mine is a twisted casting. Now that I have some metal working equipment I might try truing it up some. A surface grinder would be nice but don't have. The P bar may have been originally machined correctly but if the casting had not been stress relieved by aging or other means it may have moved.
@@larryschweitzer4904 As I said, there IS a DIFFERENCE between the 18" and 20". I have never used a 18", but the 20" was (is) a very rugged workhorse. Maybe your 18" is just one that got past quality control??? I have never seen a twisted pressure bar on any planer I have ever seen. Just makes me sit and think, .... there are many thing out there that I have never seen, I don't know everything, just my little corner of the world. I would love to actually see your twisted pressure bar.
@@lennartandre3831 I put a dial indicator under the head and adjusted the bed to parallel. Then put the indicator under the pressure bar to determine that the P bar is twisted. There is no way of adjusting the P bar side to side. I've considered on how to correct it. The simplest may be using a diamond stone and the bed as reference. Might have to try it. Will need to buy a new coarse diamond stone. Mine is getting pretty used up. Is there an easier way?
@@larryschweitzer4904 How much of a twist??? I have never seen a twisted pressure bar. Can you e-mail some pictures? My e-mail is lenbruceandre@outlook.com
Nice decals. Please do a video on applying them. I've never even heard of "water slide" decals, yet you say that's what the originals were too. Would be interested in learning more.
When I was a kid back in the 60's and 70's,model airplanes used to come with water slide decals. And the things were certainly used on other items besides kit models. It took quite a bit of patience and practice to do a good job applying them,and it was very easy to screw up when doing it.
Hi Keith, nice score. How long would you expect the surface indicator would take to cleanup in Evaporust? I have a few measuring devices from that era in similar shape. I don't expect the stains to come out, just the surface rust.
Hi Keith, I am not sure if it is the same hurricane but “Woodbrew” had a very bad experience and a lot of property was damaged or even destroyed completely.
3:30 .. I hear everyone calling the inside of vice jaws as "Knurled" .. technically they are "Checkered" not knurled .. the difference is Checkering removes metal durring the process, and Knurlling does NOT remove metal, it's just reformed.
Kieth I am not sure if you posted Ryan's info, but I have a need for his servises on two of my old machines. Woud you any anyone else be able to help with his contact information? Thanks and please keep your videos coming. They are great and very helpful!
Interesting video! I'm wondering how you keep track of all the new stuff coming into the shop. I know that I've reached the tool stage where I sometimes forget that I even have a certain tool - I bought it and used it once, so it didn't really hit the memory banks. And then somewhere down the line I need it for something but it hasn't registered that I already own one. So I do without or maybe even buy it again. Guess I need to start keeping a list somewhere. Never had to do that before.....maybe it's just dementia setting in....sigh.
@@ralphgesler5110 I'm suddenly ashamed of myself. I forget that not everyone has a shop and a tool problem. You're right, I do need to catalogue things. Today I went looking for a tool I know I have and it's gone. Probably lent it out - I'm the dude everyone in the neighborhood comes to when they're needing a tool. I do lose things that way too.....
I love this segment because I see and learn about different tools.
My brother and I just closed up our wood working factory a few years ago. We had a 20" Powermatic Planer exactly like that one and used it heavily for about 40 years, 2 shifts 6 days a week. We put millions (YES MILLIONS) of board feet of lumber thru it and it never failed us. Nothing ever broke on it. Had to replace feed rollers on it when they WORE OUT and drive belts of course. I gave it a couple of shots of grease 3 times a week. A magnificent rugged dependable machine. When we closed up the factory we sold it to a sawmill where it is still being used today with no problems.
Actually, the odds and ends format is needed. It gives us a preview of upcoming projects.
Thanks for the update on Adam. I've watched all you metal folks for years and didn't realize how much you all mean to me!
Congratulations Keith great scores thanks for sharing and thanks for the video
Thank you for letting us know Abom79 is okay.
Clyde Balcom Adam and Abby are having a blast in Colorado. He has been posting snow videos on his Abom Adventures channel.
I love the odds and ends. Plus a double machine weekend coming up?.. NICE!
Thx for the update on Adam, Kieth! 👍
Thanks for the Adom79 info Keith , thanks for the video Keith 👍🇬🇧
Good morning Mr. Rucker! You know you have made it to the big time when folks rush to point out your mistakes to everyone who will listen. Thank you for the great video and information. Have a great day!
Exciting stuff, looking forward to the new machines. Cheers.
Hi Keith Its good to see your "Machine Illness" is still alive and kicking I will be waiting to see whats next for the shop.
Morbid Iron Deficiency, hahahah or LOS (Lack of Starrett) for short. God knows I suffer from LOS and SEN (Starrett Envy Syndrome!) But I just have a little shop.
Hi Keith, I’m a millwright myself so I want to tell you about the V-block with a chain on it.
It is only one from a pair and it is used for alignment of couplings between a motor and gearbox or other effectors.
Very nice collection of tools. As the other gentleman said, that chain clamp is used to align shafts. I used one similar to that for many years to align couplings in the power plant.
Nothing wrong with odds and ends ... always a chance to learn something! Even if it was something as simple as the storm update. Dont know you or Adam but it's still nice to know all is well.
That's an extremely nice wood planer. Years ago, the wood shop on Fort Knox (at that time, they did all the various wood working for the facilities and post housing) had a planer identical to your planer... Great video.... 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
SWEET old Powermatic... can't go wrong there!
The odds & ends videos are great, don’t worry about people who say otherwise. Can’t wait to see the new machine coming into the shop, it’s been teased for a while!
I like this Odds&Ends, keep on doing! :-)
absolutely, a real treat
Keith, you are a wild guy at heart, spinning that planer up and throwing chips up in the air!
Enjoyed Keith!
ATB, Robin
Great video! Lots of great information!
Thank you Kieth
Hi Keith,
I like the Odd and Ends videos from time to time... I hope the machinery moving over the weekend goes well.
Take care
Paul,,
when grampa died i got most of his tools including his lathe. in his tools I found a tachometer for a Norden Bombsight with the radium painted dial! pretty neat
Wow, nice haul Keith. Those stickers that Ryan made are amazing!
What is neat about the starrett plumb bob is they have mercury in them which helps them settle down faster. We used them to set center line of turbines in power houses that had to be +/- .002. This was before lasers in the 1970’s. I don’t believe starrett offers them any longer but would like to have one.
Wow, That is beautiful machin. I just sold out my factory and had one very close to that. Heavy duty planer, it will serve you well.
Another very interesting video. Please keep doing your range of videos, as there are all interesting and educational.
The bicycle chain clamp is to align drive and driven equipment using the two coupling halves surfaces as the reference for the equipment. Used thus, we can achieve a horizontal, vertical, and axial alignment with one set up. Used properly, this procedure will even show run - out of drive or driven shafts and couplings.
THANK YOU...for sharing. Watched and very much enjoyed.
Great content. I have been watching for years. More of a woodworker. Love the planer. You are a great teacher.
The chain clamp was used for alining a shaft to another shaft ie. motor to a pump, motor to a drive shaft.
The wrap around is often used to mark pipe to allow for torch cutting
Keith, I have one of those "manual" Tachometers, mine is a Jeager. One of the history notes for those is pretty cool. It was used by WW2 Airmen to calibrate the bombardier sight during a bombing run.
I'm fine with the Odds & Ends format as is. Don't change.
Last time I saw a plumbob was during a Department of Trade Stability inspection on a heavily modified 50meter fishing vessel I was Captain of, they suspend them over a drum of oil to deaden movement and they move heavy weights about and measure the deflection, everyone on board has to stand on centreline during measurment. They are still used today even will all the electronic gadjets we have.
I must need to increase the search radius on craigslist because I’ve been looking for a reasonably priced bullet Vice for over a year. I’m in Greenville, SC, so I must have barely missed it!!! Great find though, Keith!
Keith, I never in my life imagined I would develop "plumb bob envy" - thats a very nice, quality tool!
You are well on your way to owning a three-dimensional Starret catalogue!
Enjouyed this video very much.
Looking forward to the two new additions to the shop.
Love Starrett Tools! If interested in some vintage Starrett tools, please watch some of my new unboxing videos!
Gday Kieth, very nice starrett collection, then new planer is a great looking machine, I can’t wait to see what you have forming in on the weekend, hopefully you will get time to shoot some video, cheers Matty
I still daydream about stumbling across a Wilton vise in need of a resto. All I can find are amateur antique dealer impersonators trying to pay off their house on a single sale...
Trading them like they were Tesla stocks
Good (or bad) to know I'm not the only one that find these lunatics around!!
Been there seen that.
Found one here in the Netherlands, hardly see any wilton’s in Europe and i happen to stumble across one at a local scrapdealer for €50. Best find ever
@@MegaBramb That is a good score! I wouldn't mind finding a Gressel here state side. They seem like a good runner up to the old Wilton bullets!
Ho you can't ever have to many vises! I've got some vises.
Got to get one for my work bench.
Ho you know. I'm always planning 20 inch by 12 inch wood all the time.
Shame trees don't get that big anymore.
I enjoy the odds & ends videos and I might add some nice aquirements in the tooling dept.well done.😋
“I’ve got a little dust collector I need to hookup to the planer” - I think it will need more than that judging from the chips it threw out!!!
My 225 is also green with a gold sharpening setup. That thing is totally bullet proof.
Looking forward to seeing the new machines! As always, awesome video Keith! Some nice new tools to add to the collection! Stay safe down there! Dan @6-4_Fab Glen Rock, PA.
That Powermatic planer is one nice machine, especially with the grinding fixture. With proper maintenance it will last you a lifetime.
Never knew that Starrett made a plumbob or a burnished.
GREAT NEW ADDITION TO THE SHOP, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE NEW MACHINES, LOVE THE NEW WOOD PLANER...( LET'S GO TO WORK )
Nice haul keith
Love the show and tell videos.
We had 2 of those planers in my high school shop. We ran them regularly.
I better check my garage to see if my powermatic is still there! lol Nice haul of stuff!!
Very interesting video Keith. Would like to see the restoration of the Powermatic planer!
the chain dog is used for shaft alignment and coupling alignment on pumps turbines etc.
Starrett 98 6-8-12-18 inches
I've been fortunate enough to accumulate all 4
Wow. Nice wood planer.
You made me feel a few years younger when you said “almost 40 years ago” about the Starret plumb bob. I was born 1978. The previous owner got it in 1979. It’s 2020.
I have the 8” on my table at work. Only bad thing is whom ever was using before I started there had welded the body to the swivel base. Other then that it’s in good shape. I still use it every day.
Didn't know Starrett made a plumb bob
Wow time is in short supply and its amazing how many irons you have in the fire! Still hoping at some point to see your used oil fired kiln/furnace in use before mine is done! I am very close to having everything needed for mine. And even have the bace and the bottem refractory cement poured.
Years ago, I made two snap-on vises into one, and I offered it to a friend of mine. He said at his age he had enough vices. I told him it wasn't that kind. He just chuckled.
I was fortunate enough, to pick up a 6 inch Wilton vice, up in West Virginia for 75 dollars, I can’t tell that it was ever used, so they are out there.
As long as you're not scraping I'm happy.
For that thickness planer, you don't need a little dust collector, you need a BIG dust collector!
WOW! Keith you just cannot have too many tools. Have you got the extension plans drawn up ready. THANK'S FOR THE VIDEO!
I won't be the only one to remark to my self that a plumb bob does not indicate level.
That plainer was for sale 25 minutes from me I remember seeing it on marketplace for sale! Very neat
“Some people do not like this format “!?!?
That burnishing tool (Not by Starret) is common in the organ industry. It is used to curve brass reeds for organ pipes. Organ builders have used those for many hundreds of years.
Nice to get tools still with their original packaging. A long time ago I bought a new Powermatic 18" planer with the grinder. I've never liked it.
Vast difference between the 18" and 20" in their ruggedness. Also they must be properly adjusted for the feed roller heights, makes ALL the difference in the world in how the planer feeds and eliminating snipe.
@@lennartandre3831 I know how to adjust a planer but when they are made with poor quality control... The pressure bar on mine is a twisted casting. Now that I have some metal working equipment I might try truing it up some. A surface grinder would be nice but don't have. The P bar may have been originally machined correctly but if the casting had not been stress relieved by aging or other means it may have moved.
@@larryschweitzer4904 As I said, there IS a DIFFERENCE between the 18" and 20". I have never used a 18", but the 20" was (is) a very rugged workhorse. Maybe your 18" is just one that got past quality control??? I have never seen a twisted pressure bar on any planer I have ever seen. Just makes me sit and think, .... there are many thing out there that I have never seen, I don't know everything, just my little corner of the world. I would love to actually see your twisted pressure bar.
@@lennartandre3831 I put a dial indicator under the head and adjusted the bed to parallel. Then put the indicator under the pressure bar to determine that the P bar is twisted. There is no way of adjusting the P bar side to side. I've considered on how to correct it. The simplest may be using a diamond stone and the bed as reference. Might have to try it. Will need to buy a new coarse diamond stone. Mine is getting pretty used up. Is there an easier way?
@@larryschweitzer4904 How much of a twist??? I have never seen a twisted pressure bar. Can you e-mail some pictures? My e-mail is lenbruceandre@outlook.com
Keithy got a new toy!!!
I remember the wood planer from high school wood shop. The loudest thing I had ever heard.
If the knives are dull the noise will overpower good hearing protection
Nice decals. Please do a video on applying them. I've never even heard of "water slide" decals, yet you say that's what the originals were too. Would be interested in learning more.
When I was a kid back in the 60's and 70's,model airplanes used to come with water slide decals. And the things were certainly used on other items besides kit models.
It took quite a bit of patience and practice to do a good job applying them,and it was very easy to screw up when doing it.
Was going to go to bed. Then I saw big Wilton and Starrett ☕☕☕
Hi Keith, nice score. How long would you expect the surface indicator would take to cleanup in Evaporust? I have a few measuring devices from that era in similar shape. I don't expect the stains to come out, just the surface rust.
Damn it, I'm in North Georgia. Missed the Vise.
Hi Keith, I am not sure if it is the same hurricane but “Woodbrew” had a very bad experience and a lot of property was damaged or even destroyed completely.
Nice Stuff Thanks
4:40 ... Is that model of Plumbob Mercury filled? they were popular in the 70's
Hiya Keith
I've always enjoyed the odds and ends videos.
So is the Wilton Vice going to be painted in "Manly Pink"?
3:30 .. I hear everyone calling the inside of vice jaws as "Knurled" .. technically they are "Checkered" not knurled .. the difference is Checkering removes metal durring the process, and Knurlling does NOT remove metal, it's just reformed.
It's pretty hard to beat a Wilton vise.
6:05 Vitras (Lee Valley) in Canada still makes scraper Burnishing Tools
I’m going to guess that one of the new machines is a horizontal boring machine. Very handy for tickling up steam engines.
did you record a video about your measuring tools please link
There needs to be at least three more Keith's to do all there is to do just in this building let alone everything else. lol
LOL, a plumb bob finds plumb not level! Otherwise it would be called a Level Bob.
I have a Level Bob. Very useful.
Level Bob lol
Good morning from St John Parish, Louisiana 18 Sep 20.
Keith, didn’t your mother ever teach you that it’s unseemly to brag and show all…? Absolutely great scores especially the planer.
Kieth
I am not sure if you posted Ryan's info, but I have a need for his servises on two of my old machines. Woud you any anyone else be able to help with his contact information?
Thanks and please keep your videos coming. They are great and very helpful!
This new Wilton vice deserves to done up in Manly Pink paint :-)
British Racing Green for me. But I like your style.
I got a 6 inch Wilton Vice like that at my neighbor’s yard sale he wanted $20.00 bucks for it I couldn’t hand him the money fast enough
At first glance the Craftsman caliper looks like my old Helios...
Interesting video! I'm wondering how you keep track of all the new stuff coming into the shop. I know that I've reached the tool stage where I sometimes forget that I even have a certain tool - I bought it and used it once, so it didn't really hit the memory banks. And then somewhere down the line I need it for something but it hasn't registered that I already own one. So I do without or maybe even buy it again. Guess I need to start keeping a list somewhere. Never had to do that before.....maybe it's just dementia setting in....sigh.
@@ralphgesler5110 I'm suddenly ashamed of myself. I forget that not everyone has a shop and a tool problem. You're right, I do need to catalogue things. Today I went looking for a tool I know I have and it's gone. Probably lent it out - I'm the dude everyone in the neighborhood comes to when they're needing a tool. I do lose things that way too.....
@@ralphgesler5110, No worries, I didn't feel at all criticized. I appreciate the comment. Have a good one.