Unbekannter dickenhobel

[Grazghal]

I have a question.

Do any of you recognize this machine?

I bought it from a man in Poland. It is suposed to be german but unfortunately it does not have a name plate anywhere. Its a superb machine with feed mechanism working as a gearbox with hardened sloped teeth gears in oil all the time. The cutterhead is old fassioned streight knife with the big washer nuts holding the blade by friction. The cutterhead is mounted on 4 ball bearings (not babbet bearings) (2 per side). It has an old siemens 5.5 KW motor. It was surely mass produced judging by the castings. It reminds me of Aldinger or old Bauerle machines. Can you help me identify it? Or at least maby it's age at least?

 

[yoghurt]

Hello,
could you please send us some more pictures especially of the cutter head? Thank you.

 

[Grazghal]

Of course. These are pictures before the restoration but it is just refreshed nothing major changed

 

[Grazghal]

Also this is a photo of the gearbox. I have seen a lot of different solutions for plnaer a drive train but this was a suprise. Not a lot of those gear in oil types around anymore

 

[carsten]

Hello

age in the 50th. Design reminds me of kupfermühle. Motor separated could be a sign that the construction is much older, from those days it was run by transmission.

Just serached an found https://wtp.hoechsmann.com/de/lexikon/pdf/mih_dh8.pdf
Never saw a Dickenhobel with that large gearbox aside.

 

[Grazghal]

It originaly had a motor belt cover but it was in a bad state not really fixable so i just trashed it and will make a new one soon. Still it is about 70 years old so who knows how it run out of the factory. That gearbox amazes me. I wish i had a video to show how it runs without cover

 

[Johannes]

Hi,
I think, the machine is older. Between 90 and 110 years. In the fifties nobody built this type of knife fixing. I would not use a machine with this type of knife fixing.

Es grüßt Johannes

 

[Grazghal]

Hi,
I think the machine is older. Between 90 and 110 years. In the fifties nobody built this type of knife fixing. I would not use a machine with this type of knife fixing.

Greetings John

Did they use ball bearings back then? Hehe i heard it threw knives for some but did;t happen to me. It gets quite a bit of use planing hardwood mostly ash almost daily

 

[Johannes]

Did they use ball bearings back then?

Yes, they where used since the middle of the 18th century.

 

[Grazghal]

Yes, they where used since the middle of the 18th century.

Oh i see. Dumb question. It seems really old. Casting underneath machined parts is rough but the fitment of the moving parts shafts and gears is great. A lot better then some new machines i have seen