Wood workers Identify

RBnSC · Dec 9, 2011

Got a call from a friend to come pick this up and to get it away from his shop. Just wondering if anyone knows what it is?
Ron

Zachary Hoyt · Dec 9, 2011

Never saw one before but it looks like it could be a squeezer (so to say) for gluing up doors or other wide panels?
Zach

DH in Carolina · Dec 9, 2011

Old wood working machines.com

Stephen Newell · Dec 9, 2011

I've been a cabinetmaker for 40 years and I've never seen anything like this before. I can see why you can't go out and buy a new model. If you assemble a door in that machine the glue that comes out the back side you can't get to it to clean it off. We have always used bar clamps to glue an entry door together and turn it over while clamped to clean the glue off. The machine would have the advantage of holding the door perfectly flat.

NW Ohio Tim · Dec 9, 2011

Don't scrap that!!! You can make some money if you want to sell it.

There are guys over at OWWM that will be beating a path to your door if you want to get rid of it.

Tim

RBnSC · Dec 10, 2011

It is already gone. He said he has other equipment that he has not used in years that he will be wanting to get rid of. If there is someone that wants stuff like this I could try to save them.
Ron

Jason the Red · Dec 10, 2011

When that machine was being used, the common adhesives were "hide glue". "Hide glue" is animal based and much easier to remove than the glues used today, which didn't even come into relevence until the 1950s.

Stephen Newell · Dec 10, 2011

I've used hide glues before. Any glue needs to be cleaned off especially on the sticking. Factory doors were sent through a double drum sander to get the face of it but too much can tear holes in the paper.

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