This time it's his Powermatic Model 10 Mortiser. Jeff had completely disassembled it and got about half way through the cleaning and painting stage. I picked up where he left off and replaced all the bearings, completed the cleaning and painting, welded up a mobile base from angle iron, and fabricated a pneumatic clamp. The original clamp was missing and Jeff looked for years trying to find one but was unsuccessful. I tried as well and had a nice gentlemen offer me an entire mortiser that had the clamp but the machine was left outside for years and completely seized. He wanted me to take the whole thing and since it is 6 hours away I decided to come up with something of my own making. I'm happy to report the pneumatic clamp exceeds my expectations. Dang that thing mashes a board to the fence. No budging it. This machine should fill a nice void in my in my shop. I look forward to using it and know Jeff would be happy with his auction score of almost a decade ago.
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