My T23 arrived today!!!
The truck carrying it had to park on a slight incline which made the delivery nerve racking. Watching the driver move it towards the back, onto the ramp, made me nervous as it would slide a foot or so after he set it down. The lift gate appeared too weak to hold the weight as it shuddered under the load. Once on the driveway I towed it up the slight incline to it's new home in my garage, on my pallet jack with my son driving the rig.
Taking stock of what I had bought sight unseen revealed a machine which apparently lived a hard life. There are dings in the iron top around the power feed, a missing grate on the back, damaged louvers on the side vent, spindle lock and height lock not working, no power cord and many missing and damaged levers and knobs. Which is all as I thought it would be.
The raise and lower mechanism worked pretty well considering it's condition. I couldn't get the tilt to budge.
I blew out a bunch of sawdust and set about spraying penetrating oil on the ways for the tilt and the cast rings in the top. I fixed the spindle lock cable and rerouted the power feeder cord through the arm of the feeder. I am rewiring the feeder when I install the new power cord. I had hoped to get it under power and went and bought the 10/4 soow cord. I thought I had a male end at home but found out I didn't, so could not power it up today.
I hope to use it for a few weeks at least before I tear it down for a refurb. My new door cutters arrived from Rangate today as well. Expensive day.
I have a lot of questions already! I bought an Aigner fence and Centrex for my Felder that are now going on the Martin. I don't see how the fence is going to mount and hope I don't have to buy a new hood to use it. I also have to figure out the mount for the Centrex.
Anyway, here are some pictures as it sits now.