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T. Taylor Planer
Typical of the period 1880 to 1910, and even today very handy as a working tool, three of these little bench-mounted planers - one powered the others hand-operated - have surface in recent years. Two reside in the United States and one in England..
If you have a T.Taylor machine tool of any description the writer would be interested to hear from you.
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A T.Taylor planer as sold for powered countershaft drive. Note the mechanism for the cross-head feed - this was a flick-over ratchet assembly that gave an indexed feed in both directions. |
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Part of the original drive system |
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The position of the crank-arm end in the T-slotted disc varied the stroke |
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A fast-and-loose pulley system provided the initial drive |
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End view of the fast-and-loose pulley assembly |
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