Oliver 36" Planer

[Wally Lloyd]

We have aquired this monster, and I wondered if anyone knows how to remove the helical cutters?
Wally

[Frank Drew]

Helical cutters on a lathe? What kind of work are those doing?

{thread was originally titled 36" Oliver Lathe - Mod}

[Jim King]

Sorry about that Wally must have been suffering from last night when he posted this. What arrived is a 36 inch planer with what must be a retro fit helical head but the set screws holding in the little knives come out part way and thats it. We cannot figure out how to remove them.

The beast weighs 6 ton and we unloaded it with a 3 ton fork lift so you can imagine the drivers surprise when the planer came off the truck and he almost went flying back on.

[Frank Drew]

Thanks, Jim, I suspected it might be a planer but there's a lot I don't know so wasn't sure that it couldn't be some kind of production lathe.

Does it really weigh 12,000 lbs.:eek:?

[Jim King]

Frank:

Yes it does weigh 12,000 pounds it got weighed at the port when it arrived.

The two 3 ton fork lifts had all they could do to get it inside.

[Tim A. Mitchell]

That's 12 Kips not tons.

Big machine.

[curtis rosche]

you could turn that into a lathe! a big one