• 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

The lathe came with a banjo which is off a bigger RS and it was missing its handle. I just so happened to have the correct one in my stash, I just need to fix the handle

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It put up a bit of a fight, I had to drill two tapered pins out.

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I need to make a new end for this

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Thanks David, I like the shiny bits also. Its hard not to get carried away.
This is my choice of filler, I find it much better than normal car bodge. it sands really well with none of the pin holes you get with normal stuff.

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I've been slowly going through every casting cleaning, filling and sanding.

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This is my choice of primer, you need synthetic thinners but its pretty idiot proof to spray.

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I'm also one of those that never say anything about this post and these photos and I don't really know what any of these machines really do, but just gaze in wonder at them. They were works of art when they were built and now Wallace is restoring them back to those artworks, but crucially, working artworks.

Thanks, Wallace.
 
Thanks Malc, Andy those blocks are from Wadkins Green lane works, the whole shop floor was end grain pine blocks. The place got demolished last year so I went down with a van and got me some flooring for my workshop. They are 4"thick so I cut them in half to make them go further. They were laid in bitumen and it has soaked up into the end grain so they are really smelly. After I cut them I had to throw my clothes away. So I've got about 3 thousand blocks which I think will do my whole shop.
I also bought the 7' oak doors from the main façade, god knows what they weigh, I can just about lift an end of the floor. My wadkinitis nearly got the better of me when I found myself making a deal for the greek stone pillars. Reality kicked in and I came to my senses. I would of loved the stone bit with 'wadkin wood working machinery' carved in it. That bit got kept to be placed in the housing development that is being built on the site now.
 
This is where all the prep work pays off, if you've tried to makes shortcuts it shows when sprayed

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Great work as ever, seeing slightly tatty handles shining like they have just left the factory is very satisfying to watch. Amazing story r.e the factory floor... glad someone spotted this blocks and asked.
 
MattS":1bdsc83u said:
Great work as ever, seeing slightly tatty handles shining like they have just left the factory is very satisfying to watch. Amazing story r.e the factory floor... glad someone spotted this blocks and asked.
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Agreed. And I look foreard to the WIP of the laying.
 
Bill don't feel as if you must comment, I know people like seeing these lumps resurrected.
Matt, Richard findley arranged to have a good few shipped to Canada and Jack has been divvying them out to fellow wadkinites, its called the blockhead club.
 
I made some good progress assembling

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Does any one know the purpose of the hole at the end of the banjo, maybe for holding a template?

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The handle was broken on this so I made a new one out of wadkin flooring

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Not that any one is going to see the underside I like to paint these red

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Your work looks impressive in the normal forum view but clicking the pictures to see them large is even better!

I had to go back to page 1 to see the 'before' shots again.
 
The hand wheel that I chose was too big so I needed to get a bush luckily it was a standard imperial size 1" and 3/4 bore. £2

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I always enjoy doing the tags

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A big PK comes in handy for laying finished parts out

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When I have a machine that's not going to be restored for a while I cover it with waxoyle, this was left over from when I was a kid and had a little MG car. That makes this tin 25 years old :shock: Anyway this lathe has been stood outside with minimal cover for a year. I have found it works its way into parts and helps a lot when dissembling.

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They had some pitting so I cleaned them up with the ROS

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Then finished with scotchbrite

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The wadkin lettering is probably the worst I've come across, the casting mould must have messed up because it was a mess. Its took alot of work with burr's and mini grinding discs on the dremmel to tidy it up.

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This is almost enough to make me yearn for a lathe.

Almost.
 
Didn't there used to be some form gun/applicator for waxoyl so you could squirt into the holes in your chassis rails?!
 
9fingers":nj18hg3s said:
Malc2098":nj18hg3s said:
Didn't there used to be some form gun/applicator for waxoyl so you could squirt into the holes in your chassis rails?!
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Yes, just as Rod mentioned two posts up? :D

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Who reads posts, when there pictures like these on there?!! :D
 
Malc2098":gbscbfnt said:
9fingers":gbscbfnt said:
Malc2098":gbscbfnt said:
Didn't there used to be some form gun/applicator for waxoyl so you could squirt into the holes in your chassis rails?!
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Yes, just as Rod mentioned two posts up? :D

Bob
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Who reads posts, when there pictures like these on there?!! :D
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I have to admit it seems to be a dying art Malc.
It seems that many like their information with lots of white space to avoid being distracted by the previous lines :lol:

Bob
 
I thought I would try some filling primer for the lettering, I wasn't impressed by the stuff I tried.

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I plan on running this with a vfd and will need to cut a hole in the electrickery door to mount the control panel, the one on this was far to nice to be chopping up so I paid my old dealer a visit and he had a plane one.

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I find its best to clean the detail out with a small drill bit, if you use a wire wheel it removes metal and round the edges.

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I have started to put bits back together so it shouldn't be long now

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While I was rutting around at the dealers I found this carriage, it must be from a very early RS.

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Wallace....sees a bit of unrecognisable rusty cast iron which doesn't go on any machine he owns.......buys it. :D

Jeez, you must have a workshop and store the size of Texas.
 
Malc2098":3d6zfq8i said:
I know I'm a simple fellow, but I love that rack!
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I would too if it weren't for that ghastly blot on the 6th tooth along from the left. Nuke it from space, I say. :lol:
 
Mike G":3rq3uzqs said:
Malc2098":3rq3uzqs said:
I know I'm a simple fellow, but I love that rack!
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I would too if it weren't for that ghastly blot on the 6th tooth along from the left. Nuke it from space, I say. :lol:
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Are we sure that's not there to line up the pinion?
 
Mike G":3k1cf1ql said:
Wallace....sees a bit of unrecognisable rusty cast iron which doesn't go on any machine he owns.......buys it. :D

Jeez, you must have a workshop and store the size of Texas.
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Mike the best thing is it was a free because its got a broken cast bit. The dealer just turned 79 and is still grafting, I think he likes seeing this stuff not going to scrap.
My daughter is all grown up so I now have 12'by8' wendy house come store house to put all my rusty spares in.
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Wallace, how do you go about getting those items down top a 400 grit ? Elbow grease and lotsof wet'n'dry paper ? You mentioned using a ROS in one post...what sort of paper do you use?

My reason for asking is that I need to prep some steel prior to getting it chrome plated and, being a lazy, impatient eejit I'm always on the lookout for a quick way to get it down to 320 grit.
 
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.
 
wallace":19c4r5q4 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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