• 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!

wadkin RS

RogerS":aglvywej said:
wallace":aglvywej said:
The rack had some pitting so I just used some 80 grit abranet on the ROS, once it was gone I went through the grits to 400 and finished off with scotchbrite by hand in one direction.
I've been curious about chroming to help ward off the rust monster, is it expensive. I have been wanting to try nickel plating but never got around to it yet.
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Ah, so nothing fancy like wet and dry emery paper. I'll give it a go.

I haven't got as far as finding out costs. The company I'm going to is Vintage Chrome https://vintagechrome.co.uk/
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You might find that they will want to do their own preparation in their methods in order to be able to offer a level of quality. I'd suggest talking to them before expending too much personal elbow grease.

Bob
 
I always enjoy doing the letters. this one is not the best I've done but good enough

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I've never come across brass hinges before

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I cut a hole in the door to put the control pad

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I paid a visit to Fred Didnahs workshop recently, he was one of my childhood heroes. A guy bought the place after freds death and has been running it as a heritage centre. He's now retiring and selling everything, literally every nut, bolt and rivet.
This is his power hammer that helped make his engines

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It’s a pity they couldn’t keep it together.
Any blue jackets going (for Paul)? [emoji3]

Nice work as usual

Rod
 
Its a great shame, I think the owner is milking it for every penny. I went for a tour but it felt more like an auction preview with him saying 'that's for sale' for big money, there were some blue coats, cant imagine what hed want. Theres a ladder going for over £400 on ebay
 
Still a bit to do Malcolm, I was hoping the vfd would fit in the electric enclosure but its 1cm over size. I now need to get some kind of enclosure to house it.
 
Because the vfd didn't fit in the electrickery enclosure I had to find something suitable. Luckily I bought a load of new really old stock a while back and this was in it.

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Then I had to make a gib strip for the carriage, I had some 1/4" brass which worked well.

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All done apart from I need to order a new drive belt.

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Beautiful, just beautiful.

Have you got a buyer for this already?
 
Oh, just look at that rack!

That is one outstanding job!!

Well done!
 
Wallace, those face plates look just like the ones on my old school lathes back in the '60s, but the rest of the machine looks much more sophisticated than the myfords and others in the woodwork room.

What exactly would this machine have bene for?
 
No buyer as yet Mike, I got a nibble from a guy in Canada but the exchange rate is not very favourable and then shipping would make it quite a penny.
Malc the outboard faceplate is off something else a graduate maybe, the threads fit but it does not register correctly and runs with a wobble. The proper wadkin outboard one is huge and made from steel, it weighs a tonne.
The RS is a pattern makers lathe but is a favourite for production turners as well
 
No Andy it sounds like a bag of hammers at the moment :D The drive belt I had spare is a bit too wide and it clangs the belt shift twice a revolution. I've been searching for a cheaper alternative to the modern ones which cost £60 which I think is a bit silly
 
wallace":1h3stq5f said:
No Andy it sounds like a bag of hammers at the moment :D The drive belt I had spare is a bit too wide and it clangs the belt shift twice a revolution. I've been searching for a cheaper alternative to the modern ones which cost £60 which I think is a bit silly
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Assuming it is a flat belt, then you might consider much much more common belt types ie timing belts or poly Vee belts. Both types will run very happily on their backs and are available in a wide range of lengths and widths.

Polyvee can also be easily sliced down one vee at a time with a stanley knife on a block of wood.

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Bob
 
I'd thought about that route Bob but I cant now. When I installed the head spindle I had a modern flat belt that came on a machine. It looked the right size but when I put the bearings in and the top stepped pulley which weighs a tonne it was too long :oops: I then had to cut it off or take the head spindle out. I tried trimming and doing a scarf joint with epoxy and it failed. I've bought the posh flat belts before and they come with 2 different adhesives. Anyone got any suggestions for glue. The stuff I used was only cheap stuff maybe a brand would work better.
 
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