Bought a joiner table

[grampahol]

You may or may not know what a joiner table is and what it does,  but quickly it slices off the edges of boards to make them nice and square with the flat side of the board using usually 2-4 cutting knives rotating at fairly high speed. 
So anyway, I bought an old DeWalt joiner manufactured I believe in 1962 although I haven't verified the year yet, just going by a post with serial numbers and dates of manufacturing by DeWalt.
It's 48" long with a 6" possible cutting width. The only part missing was the motor and I already had one although it's not the right rpm's for the job, but it still works well for hardwood. 
These things were made back before Dewalt got into the home owner tool business back when they were almost exclusively for professional wood shops.. No pretty yellow paint, just very heavy cast iron.. no aluminum or plastic anywhere other than the wire insulation..No rust anywhere except around the feet and even that's barely noticeable. With a new motor I could easily resell this thing for $1000..$500 without it..
A whole whopping $75 from an old woodshop up around Spartanburg SC..
Lots o fun loading and unloading it in the truck since it weighs over 200 pounds..I'm getting too old for that kind of foolishness of lifting that kind of weight.. We did get really lucky when the strap broke in the truck and it tipped over, but no damage at all..It didn't even chip the paint so that was lucky.. 
I suppose I'll get around to replacing the knives since they all have small chips, but none are so bad it's urgent although I may take them in for a professional sharpening someday. It ain't easy to change knives on these machines and I probably should buy a specially made micrometer for such funny business.. Brand new these types of professional joiners run around $2000 or at least a new powermatic 6" joiner does.. I think $75 was a pretty darn good deal myself.. Now I can buy hardwood from sawmills without worrying about how the edges are cut or not. I bought a planer a few years ago so rough cut lumber is no longer a problem..