What is it?

[Acelectric]

Was looking around on craigslist and found this listed with a bunch of other woodworking tools. Any Idea what this is?

 

[bluedawg76]

i'm thinking it's a time machine? Seriously, drum sander maybe?

 

[Gotcha6]

With no obvious adjustment wheels for height, I's have to say drum sander too.

 

[kirkpj01]

It looks like an Inca jointer/planer with a dust hood.......

 

[Pop Golden]

Looks like an old Belsaw molder that some industrias soul built a holder for various cuters on top.

Pop

 

[ehpoole]

It looks like an Inca jointer/planer with a dust hood.......

I'm very much in the combo Jointer/Planer camp as well.

Think of a Jointer with the infeed table on a hinge that allows you to rotate it until it lays flat on the outfeed table.

You then have a space below which should have a height-adjustable table (and fixed cutterhead) not visible (possibly missing?) in the photo above. It helps if you realize the apparent dust hood is just a piece of ductwork that the owner has strapped above the cutterhead to catch the waste.

 

[Jim M.]

So I googled and found this thread of the Inca jointer/planer on Woodnet. The one pictured above has the outfeed tables and a shroud removed but, I think we have a winner. Jim

http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=6033762