• 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!

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I haven't been using the lathe for a few weeks but decided to put its markings back on.
I thought it would be nice so that its identity would not be lost after the restoration last winter.








It is a great old lathe - maybe one day I will get the hang of it!

Merlin
 
Now that is one big beast of a lathe, well done with restoring it, should be good for another life time.
 
Hello Dave,

It is a bit of a monster - particularly when a piece of 5"x 5" 6'6" long starts spinning!
I really enjoyed restoring it back to life, I don't see any reason why it won't keep going and going.

Cheers, Merlin
 
Lovely job on the RS, the guys on the Canadian forum would be interested in seeing the original war writing.

Nathan
 
Hello Nathan,

What forum is that ?
There were some more markings on the front of the bed but it is difficult to make them out - see what you think.



I looks like AX 111 37 - God knows what it means.

Merlin
 
Here are a few pickies from a few months ago.


Turning the cylinder with the carriage.


The king post was not used in the end as the chamfered post looked better.


Ready for assembly.



The porch was finished a while ago but I haven't got any photos of it yet.
I have just started to try a bit of bowl turning so will post some on the turning section soon.

Cheers, Merlin
 
Lovely work on the lathe, I really like the lamp. Are you using the original flatbelt. I find the leather belt a bit noisy.
 
Hello Wallace,

The lamp was fitted when I got it, does a good job. ( quite a job to clean it up but worth it )
The belt is the more modern type with the metal joiner so it does a lot of clicking, I am going to look into a new glued on site one soon - has anybody used one?

Merlin
 
Wow that turned out nice and what a great job you both made of the porch . I still havent restored my RS yet .
Here she is slowly getting surrounded by timber .
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Will be interested to find out how you get on with a glued belt as i have an old clicky belt too.

Cheers Bern :D
 
Don't want to put the damper on the glued belt, but had one on a metalwork lathe. It worked great until I tried to change speed, the machine has a belt shifter and it snagged the joint and split it open. [emoji31]
 
Mine used to have the original leather belt which was joined with a scarf joint glued. I attempted to make a rubber belt with some thick belting I had. Worked really well and was quiet until I tried to brake too quickly and it just snapped.
 
Thanks, Bern,

Looks like the RS in the amongst the wood pile is screaming for your tlc ... have you ever used it?

Cheers, Merlin
 
Merlin, great restoration of your lathe , looks a first class job, really like the war department markings too and glad you put them back. I have just started to restore my RS 10 so do you have any advice ?.
 
Hello Furnman,

Great that you have taken the plunge and are bringing your lathe back to life - it would be good to see some photos as you progress.
As for advice - well the same as any restoration really, take photos of every thing, be systematic, be careful cos as you know it is bloody heavy and ask on here if you need help.
When I did mine on the Woodhaven I posted a complete project and had help from others - it helped a lot.
Have you done anything like this before?

All the best, Merlin
 
Hi Merlin
Thanks for your reply, I am new and was guided here by "wallace" as we are both into wadkins. I will start a new thread and post some pictures of mine, really sorry I cannot see your restoration thread as I understand it has all been lost, would have been so helpful. I have done some restoration before but this is only my second full strip down restoration so have had little experience so its abit worrying when you have a big pile of bits !!. Thanks for the advice and yes pictures, made that mistake last time, its so easy to forget how things go.

Do you have anymore machine projects in mind ?

thanks Mark
 
Hello Mark,

I don't have any more projects at the moment but I have got my eye out for a Wadkin JY so I will see what turns up.

That said I am repairing a Viceroy sharpedge and fitting some new bronze bushes.

If you need any photos of my restoration please ask as I still have them all.

Cheers, Merlin
 
I saw wadkin JY at a dealers recently. It was quite pricey though £900 plus vat

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Too pricey for me at the moment, something will appear that needs a fettle.

I don't know about you but I have always had to strip down machines I buy, probably because they are older green machines but I do like having a look even just to clean up and grease the bearings.

Merlin
 
Is there any logic behind the letters given to Wadkin machines?
Having googled it I see that a JY is a bobbin sander but cannot make a link to the letters JY.
BZB - bands zaw big? :lol:
RS Round shaper? :lol:

There was a German manufacturer of electronic test equipment who use letter acronyms for their kit but that turned out to be the initial letters of the equipment function in German so quite logical to them.
 
There are very few that make sense, I think the only one I can think of at hand is the CC range which were cross cut saws
 
Merlin thanks for the picture offer, I may need when I get going, thanks. Trying to figure out how to upload pictures here ??

£900 for a JY bob, way to much. I think normally you can pick them up on ebay for about £350 - £400 but prices on them are rising. I have one my self and they are lovely machines but I wonder if you are better off with the combined disk/bobbin sander as they dont seem so much more more if you have the space.

thanks mark
 
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