Gifted from Preston Park Museum
Our thanks to Preston Park Museum for making the offer to Norton Men’s Shed of woodworking machines and dust/chip extraction equipment.
Left a planer/thicknesser. Right a morticer
Dust extraction unit
Disk sander
Morticer alongside wood lathe
The Preston Hall site team. A bit of Shed about them in their banter.
Met Peter in their blacksmiths. He’s worked there for over 40 years. Don’t look too hard for Peter he is not in either picture!
One of several anvils used by would-be blacksmiths during workshop courses
*** A mortiser is a specialized woodworking machine used to cut rectangular holes in a piece of timber such as a mortice in a mortice and tenon joint} WOW. Here is a diagram of a mortice & tenon joint.
There is some surface rust on equipment, but nothing that some wire wool and elbow grease will not restore. Once again, thank you Preston Park for these items and you will certainly see them in use in due course.
Thinking about how to transport the particularly heavy items which will require lifting them brought to mind a song by Bernard Cribbins.
“Right said Fred, both of us together. One each end an steady as we go” is about moving a piano. Here is an animation in black and white of the song.
Second Friday Shed
Two Shedders with hospital appointments and one still isolating sadly. Nevertheless, we pressed on with applying the black paint. Plus putting up new clothes’ hooks in red.
Mounting clothes’ hooks
Home team changing room with table blacked!
Seeing everything in black & white
Pat hiding under the table. The glasses are on the top of her head!