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As many of you know I have been in the market for a shaper for a little while, and even considered building one! In the process of looking around, I found a 7B on facebook marketplace that was WAY overpriced. I made an offer, and got no response so figured it was a dead end. Today I got a reasonable (to me ) counteroffer: $1200 which just managed to be my top-limit. SO, I told the seller I'd take it, and picked it up today! Turns out it was a guy's wife making him sell off the few tools he had, so I felt better about my ~50% overpay.
Loading it into the truck was an adventure, but unloading with the Kubota BX pallet forks made unloading super easy! I got it into place, and snapped a few pictures. I ended up hitting it with WD40 spray and wiping it down, as it is pretty dirty. I also need to make a vise at one point, but I probably have to buy steel to make it happen:
While cleaning, oiled everything that looked like it could use it, plus oiled some other things fairly indiscriminately. The zerk above the atlas plate wouldn't take any grease, so I might end up disassembling and cleaning that to add fresh grease.
The table itself looks like it has been shaped with the tool, but not all the way back. At one point I might see if I can indicate/square this up on the surface grinder and clean it up.
This was one... oddity. When the previous owner was testing it, the clutch handle rubbed against the back of the pulley. It took me a while, but I figured out this had a set screw. That said, this clamp on the 3/4-20 (??) thread in front of the pulley was odd. I might turn a bushing for behind it, but getting the pulley off seems like it require pulling off the length adjustment plate and all that is involved with it. For now, the setscrew seems fine. Anyone have an idea what this is for? Also, what goes in the section that you can see removing that flat-head headless-bolt thing?
Finally a quick video of it running:
Loading it into the truck was an adventure, but unloading with the Kubota BX pallet forks made unloading super easy! I got it into place, and snapped a few pictures. I ended up hitting it with WD40 spray and wiping it down, as it is pretty dirty. I also need to make a vise at one point, but I probably have to buy steel to make it happen:
While cleaning, oiled everything that looked like it could use it, plus oiled some other things fairly indiscriminately. The zerk above the atlas plate wouldn't take any grease, so I might end up disassembling and cleaning that to add fresh grease.
The table itself looks like it has been shaped with the tool, but not all the way back. At one point I might see if I can indicate/square this up on the surface grinder and clean it up.
This was one... oddity. When the previous owner was testing it, the clutch handle rubbed against the back of the pulley. It took me a while, but I figured out this had a set screw. That said, this clamp on the 3/4-20 (??) thread in front of the pulley was odd. I might turn a bushing for behind it, but getting the pulley off seems like it require pulling off the length adjustment plate and all that is involved with it. For now, the setscrew seems fine. Anyone have an idea what this is for? Also, what goes in the section that you can see removing that flat-head headless-bolt thing?
Finally a quick video of it running:
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