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Thread: Wadkin MF
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22nd March 2022, 08:35 PM #1
Wadkin MF
Hi All,
Looking for some info, I have attached a pic of an MF, but it's an early one with the round top guard to the chain, can anyone please tell me if all MF's were direct drive or were the early ones like in the pic belt & pully?
Just to clarify I am referring to the Chain and not the Chisel, which the motor is sitting above.
Cheers Nigel
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22nd March 2022, 09:08 PM #2
The ME was belt drive.
Ive never seen a belt drive MF, just the two motors fitted. That one in your pic is two electric motor drive going by the motor on the right and the twin switch which turns both motors on when the correct lever is pulled. If it has its chain sharpener then a smaller belt at its back drives that off the back of the chain motor.
Ive never noticed one with that round top chain guard either. And I see I have a catalogue picture of it .
Edit. Ive also not seen that round Stop fitting before , low on the right where mine has a bar stop fitted.
Looks Nice. Can you get more pictures and a tag Picture ?
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22nd March 2022, 09:54 PM #3
More info in this .
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22nd March 2022, 10:14 PM #4
Hi Rob,
I did think MF's did have direct drive to both functions, but someone told me the early ones were belt to the chain part, but you are right the chain sharpener needs its feed from the chain motor.
I only have a part pic of the tag.
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23rd March 2022, 07:44 AM #5
You'll have to buy it (just so we can get a picture of the other half of the tag ).
Edit: MF 226 was made in 1937, MF 320 in 1940. This MF - MF 239 - would have been made somewhere in between (the Test number on the tag would enable us to tell exactly which year). Wadkin made damn good machines back then, so being that old is not a bad thing.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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23rd March 2022, 07:16 PM #6
Thanks for the general idea of what the date could be, I do have a copy of the Test Numbers, so like you say that should give us an exact date, I am looking to collect the MF in the next 2 weeks and it will go nicely with the EC that I have also just bought.
Also Vann have you noticed my pic's are the right way UP
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23rd March 2022, 07:22 PM #7
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23rd March 2022, 10:24 PM #8
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Just found the Wadkin plate for MF 226, it says Test Number 7472 and the Test Numbers I have for 1937 are 8081 to 9341, so this makes MF 226 older than 1937 or the numbers for 1937 are incorrect and need to start before 8081
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23rd March 2022, 10:50 PM #9
Nigel. The MF and ECA are great machines. Specially the ECA. Have you used any of them before?
Here's the ECA Picture as well if you haven't got it.
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And a picture of the back of My MF.
Its got the wrong sort of belt but it worked the one time I tried it out.
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23rd March 2022, 11:25 PM #10
Yes the collage I did my City & Guilds at back in the early 1980's had Wadkin machines and they were in the machine shops where I was a bench Joiner & Installer of Bars & Back fitting for pubs and night clubs.
The tenoner tag says EC not ECA, I think the A was on earlier machines and they dropped it and started using just EC
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24th March 2022, 07:36 AM #11
Recent info (last two months) have enabled a revision of the test numbers for 1936 to 1941 Wadkin by Test Number -
Canadian Woodworking and Home Improvement Forum. As a result test 7472 now falls into 1937.
Originally Posted by Camelot
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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24th March 2022, 08:04 AM #12
Thanks Vann for the link to the updated info, I will post my MF tag once I collect the machine. Cheers Nigel
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8th April 2022, 09:22 PM #13
Hi Vann, I took delivery of my MF today and looking at the Test Number it was made in 1937. Cheers Nigel
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9th April 2022, 12:58 PM #14
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9th April 2022, 04:54 PM #15
I see so that's different to this one Machine date
Still under a cover outside (raining at the moment), hope to get it in the shed later today to have a better look