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Thread: Waddie Magnet
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21st September 2016, 09:31 PM #16
Thanks Vann , great thread !! its a treat to see something like this turn up .
What a sight!
Its great coming across guys who knew the good gear and collected before the internet . Is that how this guy did it ? reading adds and traveling to go see it at sales.
And he has the space to set it out and use it .
Rob
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21st September 2016, 10:02 PM #17
He was telling me he bought his first machines through Trade & Exchange - a newspaper type magazine that has most likely been killed off by the likes of Trademe. His shop is still in the final throws of setting up (his dust extractor and cyclone are in position but not yet operating - lots of sawdust ). And of course he's recently acquired the second spindle moulder. He had a lot of his machines in storage until he moved into his current premises just a few years ago.
It's a good thing you're not closer Rob. I'd come out to your place and document your machines too... .
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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21st September 2016, 10:28 PM #18
The Leftovers - Non-Wadkins
He has a very nice chain & chisel morticer - a Sagar if I remember correctly.
aSagar.jpg You're right Wallace, he does like his black paint .
Then there's this thingamejig (not sure what it is - I didn't take the time to figure it out - I had eyes only for Wadkins ) which appears to be an Oliver (Oliver of Grand Rapids, MI, USA or Manchester, England?).
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And lastly, this large bandsaw, which he thought might be a Haigh.
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The bandsaw was fitted with the same Chaco guides as mine, but he's fitted the saw with a massive resaw blade, and made up his own guides to suit (with wooden wear strips). I forgot to measure the diameter of the wheels, but I think it's a 36" machine.
Edit: Oh, and it's a leftie too.
There is another piece of OWWM that I forgot to photograph - a three-head tenoner - which he thought was also made by Haigh. It was one of his favourite machines. The only one he demonstrated running.
There were other bits and pieces. A modern-ish drill press; a small bandsaw; a user made horizontal borer; etc.
I'll go back some time, in a month or three, and take some more photos.
Cheers, Vann.Last edited by Vann; 22nd September 2016 at 06:48 AM. Reason: "Leftie" comment added.
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21st September 2016, 11:16 PM #19
That thingamjigi is a No 410 Quick self-squaring sash clamp.
Melbourne Matty.
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21st September 2016, 11:32 PM #20
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22nd September 2016, 02:05 PM #21
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11th December 2016, 07:11 PM #22
I was passing through today, and called in again.
It wasn't easy, he had a compressor dovetailed in next to the CC, but I managed to get a few pikkies of the CC tag. It was a case of lean over the table, point the camera in the general direction of the tags, and take a picture. Not a fat lot of good though...
aCC1.jpg I can't make out a thing .
Nor did I get the tag of his newly acquired spindle moulder last visit.
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Better luck here: EPA 1406S, Test SC4602.
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FS2 56198 with a 9" wide x ~5' long table.
The RMA has a 20" wide x 6' long table.
aRMA76.jpg aRMA78.jpg aRMA82.jpg It doesn't look like he uses the "under" very often .
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RMA 839, test 20962, of 1943 .
Now this is a turn for the books. This is the very RMA that replaced a Preston Woodworking Machinery Co. line-driven Planer & Jointer (Preston #1188, of 1929), and is the subject of my ramble about acquiring a Wadkin during WW2 https://www.woodworkforums.com/f299/w...-wadkin-198752
and therefore sat next to my Preston bandsaw for 43 years .
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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12th December 2016, 01:07 PM #23
Okay - so after distracting myself with that RMA, I'll continue the tour.
No post on old Wadkins is complete without a few gratuitous pictures of a PK, so here are some more:
aPK1.jpg aPK1.jpg aPK2.jpg I took a picture of the protractor because it's missing from my PK.
He has the long cross-cutting fence for the sliding table, but finds it too heavy, and uses an aluminium fence. The right-hand table is made of ply (not a Wadkin original).
Confirming it's an RS-8, with a bed ~ 7' long.
Yes, definitely by J. Sagar & Co. Ltd.
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Cheers for now, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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12th December 2016, 01:35 PM #24
Three Headed Monster
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12th December 2016, 01:47 PM #25
Doing the lords work Vann, cheers!
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12th December 2016, 04:25 PM #26
Your doing great things here Vann ! Thanks .
I concentrated on the favorite machine of your friend, his tenoner . Is that Babbit bearings on the heads ?looks it ?? I cant see a way of oiling though ?
it looks like original belt drive possibly as well ? I dont know .
I know why its his favorite machine I think. Because they take care of what was a time consuming job and do it in a fraction of what it used to take before you got a tenoner. They look complicated and space consuming but once you get one you feel like stopping and bowing your head in respect every time you pass it . Of course part of that respect is because they can also eat your arm off to the armpit in a second as well !! if you get stupid on it . I bet he loves it .
I never get tired of PK pictures and set ups either. I like his extension !
I also like those "Run the chain slack" signs. Sweet looking Mortising machine.
Rob
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18th June 2017, 09:17 PM #27Originally Posted by Vann
Sagar Ten1.jpg Sagar Ten2.jpg
I guess Sion will know for sure.
Cheers, Vann.[/QUOTE]Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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