That fence certainly feels like a casting project in the future

You know you’ve been hanging around too long when you recognize the piece of scrap he pulled out and can remember which episode it came from 🤣

Perfectly dimensioned firewood stacks neatly😂

Thanks for this woodworking special 🙂 I knew there was something wrong with my firewood - now I need to get a thickness planer 🙂

0:37 I like that is uses 0KW. Very green. Great Swiss attention to detail right there. It's so good it doen't need anywhere as much cleaning effort as that other name plate that will remain nameless. :)

I missed this one. I would have LOVED to have met the Queen!! Great video and machine.....

I used to repair those belts regularly. I still have the tool. You can get the belting with a hollow core and use little barbed pins as connectors. They work really well.

Next week. Mark upgrades the Inca with a DRO, and conveyer for the ultimately precise and easy firewood maker... Thanks for the anecdote about the Queen btw. We are hearing so many humorous stories about her.

I literally laughed out loud when you threw the wood into the furnace! Ty that made my evening alot better!

O i wondered why my fire wasn't working properly. Not on the square. Thanks for the tip

This is another one of those Swiss machines where they did a brilliant job on most of it, but that feed mechanism what were they smoking?? 🤣🤣🤣

Ohhhh. Inca were the stuff of my young woodworking dreams in the late '70's - early '80's. Much like Sinctillia and your Shaublin, Swiss made was a full step above even the German tools that were so romanticized here in the States. (I ended up with a Makita combo jointer/planer back then)

The articulated arm on the planer may have been built by the Swiss, but it was designed by a German. You can tell because it's elegant yet complicated.

I have an Inca bandsaw that I bought new in the 80's and I love it. I always wanted the Inca jointer planer combo but the price was too high at the time (so I ended up with two machines 6" jointer/12" planer). Congratulations on a great find! They are quality machines. BTW, when you are jointing you want most of the pressure on the out feed table. If you can lock the height adjustment on the planer, that will help with the snipe, but snipe is a common problem to a greater or lesser extent on all planers. Some people use a large radius, short, round fence for ripping thick (resawing) parts. If you pencil in a line, you can just follow it pivoting the board against the rounded fence since every bandsaw has a different "drift". Search for "Kreg 4-1/2" Resaw Guide" for an example, but you could make it easily.

Your most welcome, do enjoy, all the best

If you use a nitrile belt you can just scarfe and super glue it. I have one on my toy wood lathe that was a cut-down long belt and glued together in an 'emergency' and it surprisingly never failed.

Great video. I upgraded the planer feed drive on one of my 2 Inca jointer planers. It was pretty easy to do myself (as a novice) and has worked flawlessly for the last year and a half. Plus you get fully variable speed instead of the standard too fast and semi-slow

Couple of woodworking tips: 1) Always cut the stock roughly to size before flattening/straightening. If you try to square up a large piece you'll lose much more waste (or it might even be impossible). 2) When ripping, find out which direction the blade wants to drift in (they normally drift, even good ones), and align your fence parallel to this direction. You can also use a "single point" ripping fence which doesn't really have a direction, but is a little harder to use.

Years ago I used a block with a V shaped notch that the belt laid in. Made alignment easy and you could inspect the joint as the glue was curing.

That's the best looking firewood I've seen in a long time!

1983 Mafell joiter/planner is pretty similar to this one. These old school machines are just awsome!

for bandsaw resawing you can use a table saw to cut top/bottom and finish with the bandsaw. This helps avoid binding, the tree and how it grew determines how crooked they end up.

Nice edit to the intro, very smooth. Congrats on the Inca find!

Beautiful new tool... one of the best use of time seems to be learning your new tools. I'm glad there is an internet to share these experiences with others. Think of all the knowledge and experience that has been lost or only been passed from parent to child in the past. Not much of this stuff is placed in books or stored in other ways to be shared with new tool owners. Happy Sunday!

Just snagged one of these thanks for the info!

Funny you mentioned NZ Air Force. Good friend of mine spent time there. I know NZ well because of 16 seasons in Antarctica.

Scored one of those Emco 6 in 1 machines off a mate a few years back. Amazing what you can get done on even a tiny machine.

Great video as always, and good choice on the music! Really enjoyable this time.

hahah the end was the bomb ( making firewood :D ahhahaha )

Firewood bit about did me in Does your big band saw have a fence? I rip my last edge to width on a table saw or band saw and clean it up on the jointer, with one of my true faces up against the fence. Those big long rip cuts are tedious no matter which way you slice it, by hand or band. I’m trying to dream up an unsolicited chip collection scheme, but a crazy big shroud with a blower motor seems like a nightmare

I'm using an elektra beckum at work that is pretty much the same construction. In my experience it doesn't even come close to the DW 1150. (nothing really does). Fortunately I've managed to get my hand on an Emco Star that's like new, still having every single attachment to the last screw. I would still give it away for that old Dewalt.

I’m no expert, but that spider looks like the so-called “hunter” that appeared in my shirt sleeve during a visit to Queensland. It was very fast - it ran off at Warp 9, somewhere under the bed where my wife was still asleep. I chose not to inform her of this chance encounter, as there was really nothing I could do about it…

That end just breaks my heart

Good Job Son Good Job Awesome compact fire wood processor to keep the shop warm and toasty

You have to admit, dimensionally perfect fire wood stacks nicely.

Congrats for thr machine, old but top quality. Ballistol Holzgleitspray will help you to feed the wood easier.

Final comment - totally unexpected - loved it. :)

Ah, jointers. Table saws will just cut off your fingers so you have to sew them back on; you need a jointer to take your fingers and slice them off in half-millimetre slices so there's nothing left to sew back on. That guard is your very, very best friend with those things...

good video RotarySMP

A good old Austrian woodworking trick is to but some diesel on the metal surfaces to keep them slippery without any negative effects on the wood and keep it from rusting 😅

Sweet a proper planer/jointer is one of those tools that gives you so much more freedom when choosing lumber

The twist was fantastic hahaha, that’s great glad it works for you

Excellent machine. I have 3 Inca machines. Nice review.

precision firewood, brilliant!

I've a couple of the Inca bandsaws. If you can find one of the bigger 3-wheel saws (500 iirc), grab it with both hands and don't let it go. It's a bench-top(ish) saw, but it's stiff enough to cut metal, and the 3-wheel design gives it a massive throat for it's size.

Nice to get a decent new tool. I use those belts on the watchmaking lathes you do have to get the metal pretty hot and push them together hard so it mushrooms back on itself. It usually stretches quite a bit too so make slightly short....

Hello Mark, Nice machine... I have been looking for the EMCO Star one... Cheers. Paul,,

This was an adventure and a half!

-10 points for not adding a Wilhelm scream when the spider jumped.

I had a meal at the Uppsala airforce base in Sweden on a weekend introductory course for kids interested in joining the home guard youth program. It was the best quality food I've ever had, everything was fresh and made to fancy restaurant standards and it was like 9 euro for all you could eat with three options or more each for starter, main , dessert, bread and soft drinks. And that wasn't even the big wigs mess hall, it was the common mess for everyone, be it recruits or enlisted. I understand why people want to join the airforce.

Your story about the queen gave me flashbacks to This Old Tony’s “How I got fired on Christmas Eve” story. I kept waiting for you to say something like “and that’s how I got kicked out of the Air Force”. …. and that guard needs to go.

Impressive tool. I thought your fence worked well.

I have same machine. Have had it for like 6-7 years and never used it :D

That's a nice toy. A chips fountain!

Glad you have your priorities right with that Patreon $$$. Booze first, then tools.

No only precision firewood but precision tinder also!

Does the circular saw let you reduce the depth of cut so the motor clears shallow stuff? With my cheapo I have to do that if I want to run along a guide on the motor side.

Great video. Very helpful as I have just purchased an old one to renovate. Can you possibly tell me the diameter of the green drive belt please. Thanks

The best firewood! Had me laughing.

I see a variable-speed DC motor drive adaptation project in our future to replace that sketchy power feed system on the INCA. Funny how the rest of the machine seems like a tank compared to the power feed drive. Nice story about you and your AF mates getting bombed after "meeting" the queen.

Very nice firewood manufacturing. Those Inca machines were very rare here in the US. I always enjoyed wood lathes. Great way to make expensive sawdust and chips and nothing usable in the end (in my case). A simple 90* gear motor and speedcontrol is how I would go after that feed screw fix. Oh and I had plane tickets ready to buy for Athens... But she didn't like the layover time in London and got pissy and didn't want to go... So My mom is finally getting her passport and once she has it in hand will plan on taking her to Athens and Naxos in late April. Maybe May depending on ticket prices. So yeah not in a good mood that we aren't going there on Sunday but may end up going twice next year. The flight loads coming back from Athens are full or near full on all flights and they are having too many cancellations due to mechanicals on 787s to even think about non revving there. And buying a one way ticket home costs more than a round trip...

Hey, nice video I have the same model here and with the fence!! It can join well however not plane to thickness since the automatic feeders are not in line with the blades. The manual says to adjust the adjusting screws beneath both sides of the cutter head and loosen the locking screws in order to slide the whole thing down. I am guessing the locking screws refer to the 4 screws on each end But it is physically impossible to get to the screws on the right side (belt side) without disassembling all the gears and such. There must be a better way???!? If you have any idea that would be great! Thx

19:13 You’re gonne get hurt like this. It’s good practice to fold that protector out of your way for the planing. It’s there for when you’re NOT planing.

now that's some high precision firewood! ISO 5725 certified?

14:25 that digimatic looks pretty real (if insert batteries and it has four zeros blinking is real instead of going straight to a measurement number), i wonder if you had a certificate with it and from reputable vendor, I fell for a clone on amazon. They're really big biz as Clough42 demonstrated.. I've a Chinese bandsaw, the pulley was half hollow, and ironically hollow where the belt force was applied creating fulcrum/lever effect on the small portion in contact with shaft, munched itself AND the motor shaft.

6:11 or maybe it wasn't.... very nice machine by the way. When you start seeing rip outs in the wood's surface look out if you can get your hands on a fitting spiral cutter.

Instead of fiddling with a belt use an o-ring. That's been working for me for years.

A machinist in a wood shop is a scary thing. As a woodworker I never get as close as 0.1 millimeter. Wood has enough flex you can make it work even an eighth inch off.

Restoring high end tools are the best choice. Not only get something at a fraction of the cost, but also the fun of fixing it. Congrats 👍

I didn't think you were after perfectly sized firewood. I thought you were creating chips for the wood smoker.

Hi I love the music choices. Btw, about belt, your setup is too hot for the material. Its losing material properties and getting hard and brakes on the joint. Love your videos.

Bit disappointed you didn't blue up the fence and hand scrape it to perfection 😁

Over here in North America, jointers and planers are usually stand-alone units, whereas in Europe combo machines seem to be the norm. Any thoughts on why this might be so? Pros and cons?

Inca still make router lifts and stuff - not sure it's the same company though!

Squaring stock seems too complicated, glad I picked metal working.

Next video: Dust collection? 😁

I had a machine like that for years they work well for what they are BUT you will thank yourself (in reduced clean up) if you get dust collection hooked up to it. Mine had a simple scoop that clipped in either above the table or below depending on the function. However, after a decent tax return a couple of years ago I got a bigger one with carbide cutters and the difference between them is like chalk and cheese. Great shame about Her Majesty; she was the consummate states person King Charles III has some big shoes to fill. Rest in peace your Majesty.

Will you CNC the planer?

How to get square flames in your fire, use square wood

Woah buddy, use two grip paddles when jointing. If that blade snags it's gonna yank that wood and your left hand directly towards the blades, and I'd hate to see you lose a finger.

just woundering are you gonna chance the blade out for one of those that with varbide inserts in ? and put a dio for the high instead of just the arrow ? ( i would put a dio on just because i can xD and give the the haters the middle finger / saying " its my machine i can do with it as i want xD )

Why isn't your vise in the bottom of the cook straight with the rest of them

Thats it, screw sustainability I'm switching to fuel oil - no way I am holding my firewood to this standard!!

Is the machine just as loud as the Chinese cheap thickness planers?

Perfeito !

Myford were doing it years ago... 🇬🇧😐

If you pack all your wood shavings into old cereal boxes with a tiny bit of used cooking oil poured on it to soak in, they not only burn for a time that's pretty comparable to an equivalent sized block of wood, but also give off the vauge aroma of what was cooked in the oil. :) Just out of interest, in your years as an aircraft mechanic, I'm guessing you get a pretty lenient allowance on baggage when going to smaller airports, so you can take a few specialist tools that may not be instantly available on site. Does that lead a unhealthy habit of scouring international eBay for interesting tools to...... erm...... "Supplement" your returning luggage? I used to be a long distance courier here in the UK, and it was unreal the times I won bargains on eBay because the item was something too big for someone in a hatchback car to collect, too out of the way for most people to want to go, and too bulky to ship. If I had a large chunk of the planet to buy kit from and free reign to say "It's just work equipment, plus spares" when handing crates to the check in desk, I'm not sure I'd have been able to control myself. :D

Well, it’s not a lathe but it’s still a machine!

So no fence…. Seems like a lost pla casting project. I’ve been told it’s quite a bit easier than the other methods.

6:10 - Maybe it's dead! * It was not dead *

20:25 must... resist... joke... arrrrrrhhhhhhh

If you keep collecting machines like that you will have to put a second understory under your cellar! 😄 (don't you just hate auto'correction'!)

Dude!

It’s a wood linguini maker!

Throw some film finish on it and that fence will probably last you forever.

and where exactly does this bolt to the lathe??😂😂

The edges seems too sharp for my taste of firewood

Let’s see. Important party + military guys untrained for the task + alcohol = what could go wrong!

Yeah nah aren't new/old machines just the best? Jesus Christ @ 6:12 I just had a minor heart attack...

0.02 to 0.05 will burn a lot hotter.