Photo Index - Walker-Turner Co., Inc. - B745

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Walker-Turner Co., Inc.
Jersey City, NJ; Plainfield, NJ

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Table Saw
Machine Size:	8"
Submitted By:	Joe Wells

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	B745
Date of Manufacturer:	1940-1950
Serial Number:	7CS140
Last Updated	6/15/2007 2:36:00 AM

Comments:

Once upon a time, out in the Wildwoods of St. Louis- where the McMansions grow like fat, brick-veneered weeds and roaming packs of H2s cruise through the wide, well-lit boulevards- there lived a man. A man who did not like arn. A man who did not talk. But a man in possession of a small Walker-Turner table saw.

How this Man Who Did Not Like Arn came to be the owner of this bit of OWWM, I can only speculate. Based on the beat-up hand-written price tag on the table, I would presume that he gave $100 for it with some intension of using it for more than a doorstop. I think he grunted something to this effect when asked about the origins of the saw and his relationship to it. The Man Who Did Not Talk muttered something about "already having a jigsaw" and he just wanted to get rid of it. He look a significant loss on the deal. But living as he did in the land of McMansions and H2s, I think he will survive this economic hardship.

It's one of the sadder bastards that I've drug home so far. The table has been attacked by rust and I'll almost certainly use electrolysis to clean it up. The underside of the table has been painted silver, including all of the hardware and adjustments. The bearings are the crunchiest, grindingest bearings that I've ever heard/seen/felt. The good news is that nothing seems to be broken and all of the important parts are there.

As you can see in the pics, it also included the fence and miter gauge. Without those I probably wouldn't have been interested at all. The fence seems to be in decent shape. The geared miter, on the other hand, is oddly pitted. Deeply pitted. I really don't understand how it could have become so bad. It should make a decent worker, but it'll never win any beauty contests.

The W-T S/N magic decoder ring doesn't list this model. By reading between the lines and referring to catalogs, it looks like this model came out in 1940. There are no Kearney & Trecker markings on the tags, so this one should be pre-merger. I'm a bit surprised that only one other example of this model has made it to the mothership. I would have thought that these would have been more common.

More pics at http://www.joewells.org/owwm/WTB745TableSaw

Photo 1:

Comments: Front
Source: Official Shop Cam

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Photo 2:

Comments: Left side, blade raising mech
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Comments: Tags
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