• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Restoration Tease...

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Not wanting to let Wallace have all the fun, in a couple of weeks I will be starting on this:

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Main portion


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Business end

This is a Porter overarm router. A simple machine, but with very costly parts. The two bearings in the spindle (second pic) were almost $300...each.

More in a couple of weeks.

Kirk
 
Excellent Kirk. I've seen old descriptions of these sorts of machines and it is amazing what they could do. Looking forward to this restoration.
 
Ooh very cool, overhead routers sell for peanuts over here nowadays. They were probably one of the most produced machines wadkin built, but most get scrapped.
I picked up my holy grail lathe recently a RU which was wadkins second biggest they built. It has a sliding bed which is 3.2m
 
wallace":1ryh3od2 said:
I picked up my holy grail lathe recently a RU which was wadkins second biggest they built.
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Wait, wait wait...

Yours looks like it was designed to turn whole tree trunks and you're telling me it's the SECOND biggest!? What the hell is the biggest one in that case!?
 
The biggest one was the RUH which was basically the same as the RU but the head stock was about 3 times the size and had posh Timken bearings. I got offered one recently but never had £8k :shock: It makes them all singing VB lathes look like something axminster would make
 
wallace":3qwojelm said:
Ooh very cool, overhead routers sell for peanuts over here nowadays. They were probably one of the most produced machines wadkin built, but most get scrapped.
I picked up my holy grail lathe recently a RU which was wadkins second biggest they built. It has a sliding bed which is 3.2m
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Very cool. I know a guy who restored one:

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It's so long it has perspective! :)

Here's the thread on OWWM:
http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=186701

Kirk
 
wallace":ws2rfdji said:
Ooh very cool, overhead routers sell for peanuts over here nowadays. They were probably one of the most produced machines wadkin built, but most get scrapped.
I picked up my holy grail lathe recently a RU which was wadkins second biggest they built. It has a sliding bed which is 3.2m
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I was going to buy it for $300, knowing that the bearings were trashed. But it turned out that the collet was messed up too, so he offered it to me for free to get it out of his shop. I wound up paying him $400 to install the bearing, make a new collet nut, regrind the collet taper, and ship it the spindle assembly down to me. So I'm into my "free" machine for $1000 right now, plus another hundred for a new belt. And I haven't even started working! :)

Kirk
 
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