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Logan 7-inch Shaper
Logan 7-inch Shaper Ram Assembly
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The Logan 7-inch shaper (real maximum stroke 7.5") incorporated the well-known Logan variable stroke-rate control, activated by a handwheel mounted on the front of the stand. 

Although robust, and fitted with a swivelling base, the Logan shaper vice was rather tall compared with that fitted to many of its competitors.
The box table, unlike the later 8" version, had no T slots in the top and a single V, with tapped holes for clamping bolts, down the right hand side.

The eccentric control which varies the speed of the table travel was identical on both 7 and 8-inch versions. The handwheel in the background is non-original, but fitted by the previous owner to the manual stroke advance control to eliminate using the standard crank handle.
This is a sensible and worthwhile modification to any shaper so equipped - it saves looking for the handle which, if accidentally left in place when the machine is started, is likely to fly off and deal you, or an onlooker, an uncomfortable if not fatal blow.

Stroke-rate control handwheel.

Unlike the more rigidly supported box on the 8-inch shaper with its crank-handle controlled lift, the 7-inch used a single screw (with a very inconveniently located handwheel underneath and to the back of the box) to both lift and support it; once in position a round nut was screwed down to lock the setting.
The screw was supported on a rectangular plate which was allowed to slide along a machined track as the table moved.

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Logan 7" Shaper
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With thanks to Mike Fendley of the USA who made the pages about this very early 7"  Logan shaper possible.