Jacobs MiniMax spindle moulder

[Norman Verona]

I've taken those photo's at last.

so here it is... CLICK

[pistonbroke]

Looks like an extremely dangerous piece of kit

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

I trust its never plugged in when Norman's around?

[Norman Verona]

I'd answer that if I had a head.

[7sRWild]

Okay I give up,wot part of a seven are you going to build with that?

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

A Morgan/7 hybrid?

[Norman Verona]

MG TC's also had ash frames.

I've always wanted a TC. A P type would be better but too fragile for modern conditions. I could have bought a TC in 1964 for £100. It had been the subject of a well publicised court case when some scaffolding fell on it. University Motors, where I was an apprentice, had rebuilt. It had a name: Hortense.

I opted for a new Mini at £477 as I thought it would pull the birds better. It did, I took my ever-loving home from the party where we had met. 3 years later we were wed.

[housebeautician]

Just a word of warning

You need to have some training for these machines.

They are lethal in the hands of the stupid and untrained.

I'm speaking as an ex senior mill hand who has seen a three inch cutter come out of a spindle machine that was running at 11,000 rpm and just miss a guys head by half an inch, then went through a light block wall, it was never seen again. (And it was not me who set it up)

Didn't take long for the firm to fix guards after that.

But great machines if you know what you are doing.

[7sRWild]

But great machines if you know what you are doing.

Ahem!

[Norman Verona]

HB, I wouldn't even connect it the mains.

But Jacob knows how to use it and all the other machinery he has.

I assembled the cutter but it's only on the spindle for photographic purposes.

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Yep as HB says it's a very handy piece of kit, BUT YOU NEED PROPER TRAINING to use one of them.

You can do a lot of damage to your fingers.

It looks a fairly modern one, power feed, sliding table, nice piece of kit.

[Norman Verona]

BTT for Paul

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Beat yer to it

[Norman Verona]

OK, any idea of what he can sell it for

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

To be perfectly honest.....no.

Have you tried looking on an auction website, no not ebay, one sells stuff from bankrupt companies, or maybe exchange and mart, i think they have a section for woodworking machinery, hth