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Thread: Wadkin 40S
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5th June 2023, 09:04 PM #1
Wadkin 40S
I added to my Wadkin family today with quite an interesting overhead router,
40S Overhead Router 1957 Booklet.jpg
In the Wadkin 1957 Booklet Wadkin name this a 40S (not sure why they called it this, the travel is 32" so that's not the reason)
LFH 1958 Booklet.JPG
In the Wadkin 1958 Booklet Wadkin name it a LFH (exact same artwork just a different name)
LFH 1961 Booklet.JPG
In the Wadkin 1961 Booklet it's still called a LFH, but the table got a redesign.
40S pic1.jpg 40S unloading 1.jpg 40S unloading 2.jpg
40S Tag.jpg
So it looks like the last year of production for the 40S was 1957 (and maybe that was the only year it was make) it's painted with a green hammerite paint and it looks original, not sure which year Wadkin changed from grey.
Anyone know much about the 40S?
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6th June 2023, 06:57 AM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Whats the plans for the table? I was thinking it would sit on it's own mobile cart with a table included. The problem is if it's a free standing table it would need to be adjustable incase the floor it was sitting on was uneven.
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6th June 2023, 09:00 AM #3
The table and the overhead template part would need to be parallel with each other, the table top could be made to slide out and also move left to right to increase the range of the router, but the overhead template part would have to remain the size of the range of the routers telescopic arm , so this sliding table will only follow template with a router bit with a ball bearing follower, which would then take advantage of the moving table.
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6th June 2023, 06:16 PM #4
Wow. What an interesting, and different, machine.
Wow. What an interesting, and different, machine. I regret, but I know nothing about them.
Those that have been following Wadkins for longer than I have, claim that Wadkin changed from grey to green in 1963 or 64, as a German machinery exhibition stipulated all machines had to be a certain shade of green.
Thank you for the tag photo.
Going by the machine number - 130 - this would be the 26th machine of this type (as Wadkin started most models at #105). So I would suggest this one would be from the first or second year of production.
Useless fact: Up until about 7 years ago it was believed that the first two digits of the test number was the year of manufacture - until wallace was able to prise the coding out of the cold dead hands of a Wadkin dealer. Anyway, entirely by coincidence, it turns out that it is true for test numbers starting with 57.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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6th June 2023, 08:10 PM #5
Hi Vann,
I have noticed there are no 40S or even the LFH which must have been in production for longer, I have attached a Tag from a 1967 LFH currently for sale on the Gold Coast, which shows it must have been in production for at least 9 years
LFH 1967.JPG
I have heard the German Story, but the green paint on mine is even inside the hollow part of the Radial Arm, so someone really went to town painting it green if it was originally grey.
Cheers
Nigel