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29th June 2017, 12:16 AM #1
Make an offer ?? Wadkin RC Buzzer
Its a grand , OK. Then I read the description on this add !!
What ?
Then it says make an offer.
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/nara...ner/1151649876
I think Scrap value or for parts if any one is looking .
And can get him to come down a touch on the price
There is a good enough Tag pic in there I think Vann .
Rob
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29th June 2017, 01:27 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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That would make your day wouldn't it!!
CHRIS
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29th June 2017, 10:14 AM #3
A mate had the same thing happen to a Wadkin 24" under and over.
His 'mate' had changed the cutters and didn't finish in one go.
As he was a toolmaker he fixed it, what he bought as a bargain from the School furniture factory where it had survived decades of use became an expensive exercise.
H.Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)
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29th June 2017, 10:49 AM #4
Boy I hope no one was using it when the cutter let go. That is surely "heavy metal".
Just do it!
Kind regards Rod
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29th June 2017, 12:57 PM #5
Test No. 3312 would probably be early 1920s (I still trying to confirm that Test No.s around 4300 date to 1926-28). I don't know how the seller came to the conclusion that it's a 1950-60 machine?
I don't know prices over there, but with both tables broken I doubt it would be worth over $100 - except maybe to another Wadkin RC owner with a different broken casting.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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29th June 2017, 07:28 PM #6
Yes , how P'd off would you be at yourself for doing that to a machine you really liked .
And standing near it when it happened would be something that would shake you about a bit I think .
Standing using a band saw when the blade snaps is bad enough !! First time that happened to me nothing
was said , I was standing there and someone just handed me a roll of Toilet paper.
The guy would be better of fixing it himself if he could . The best side hobby which helped my woodworking I ever did was metal work . Blacksmith and welding and Brazing courses. Selling it off then having to pay for another wouldn't be nice.
Rob
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29th June 2017, 09:33 PM #7Senior Member
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I bet that woke up everyone in the shop when it happened.He claims it's the original motor but the tag mentions countershaft pulleys so that seems unlikely.Lucky no-one got hurt.Alli
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29th June 2017, 10:31 PM #8
When I worked at Ballina Slipway and Engineering in the 80s the 36" bandsaw up there would break a blade a week. The students at the places I taught at in later life were always instructed to never stand in the line of fire, ie to my right at the edge of the table.
Most blades get trapped, some even wrap up and rip the edge off the rubber on the wheel.
The ones that come out bounce off the tabletop and in my recollection travel in a straight line.
H.Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)