Originally Posted by
Patrick Kane
Nice, post some photos of the T17! Did you paint it blue to match the shaper? I’m tired of 60s/70s green and I’m going blue/teal if I ever repaint these. Of the two, I am more excited about the T17. It seems like the perfect compliment to a contemporary slider. The outrigger and crosscut extrusion on this t75 leave a lot to be desired. It’s not the heft and build quality I expected. The rest of the machine is 10/10, even for being 50 years old. I will be stoned for saying it, but the outrigger and fence on my 2004 KF700 is more impressive than this design and build. Except for the cantilever outrigger support beam. The felder’s kind of sucks and this one rides on bearings and feels like it could support 200-300lbs no problem.
Joe, I have no clue what the part with a spring is or does. I picked it up and looked at it for a bit after work and I don’t have a guess.
Kevin, my grooves are 3/16” wide. There’s definitely wear. This weekend I should have time look it over closely and see what I have. The T17 had very slight dishing of the table top near the throat plate. Maybe dished .002-.003” in that area. I expect there will be some level of deviation on this 75 from the years of use.
I lightly oiled the ways of the sliding table and that made a huge improvement on how smoothly and quietly the table rolls. Generally, I think the whole thing needs some TLC, because the blade height adjustment was extremely tight, but loosened up with some usage. I assume that will be much better with lithium sprayed on the motor mount ways. I really need to buy an oil gun too, because the whole machine has numerous oil ports.