Thread: Wadkin 18" X 9" UO/S Planer Thicknesser

Yes one came up for sale with a lot of other machines recently for $250 in Perth. Needless to say I bit hard but didn't get it. Cheers, Zac

These are both Bursgreen machines.
Ive owned both previously.
Both quite good machines.
The 18” shortened my middle finger, left hand, my own stupidity.

There is a BAOS for sale in Sydney atm.
Its been damaged, one table is rs from what the mate said.
In bits and I think it was when damaged, someone tried to move it and the loose table did a dive onto the conc.
They still want $1K

There have been bits advertised in Pommyland but the freight would kill it.
H.

The 12" BAO/S come up frequently in UK. Very frequently - like there are probably three or four listed on eBayUK at present.

But again, the freight would kill it.

You could stick a postage stamp on the top, right-hand corner. But you would never be able to get it through the slot on those lovely cast, round, red, Royal Mail postboxes....

Cheers, Vann.

I’ve actually owned two of the little BAOS combos.

The first I bought without a fence.

So borrowed a fence, possibly from a 9” Bursgreen jointer, superglued on some ply for machining and got one cast by the Foundry that was casting the stuff for the Ena steam yacht resto.
Machined it on the mill at Box and Dice who I did modelmaking for.
Jack T who used to be the sales manager at Austral had the rack and other bits in his stash.
Sold it when the 18” came up from the Budge Ellis Patternshop in Alexandria.

Ive recently sold due to a noise complaint a BAO and know where there is one going for peanuts but it needs so much work it’s not worth it.

I did miss a BAO or BAOS last time we were in Canada, it had a spiral head and fugged gearbox, went for $200 on the Canadian forum. Annoying it was just up the road from Red Deer and I could have stripped out the head in the farm workshop and brought it back to Oz as excess luggage.

I am getting forgetful in my dotage but have a Wadkin Bursgreen catalogue since the mid ‘70s in which I pencilled all the auction results etc for about twenty years.

H.

Originally Posted by Fergiz01

Yes one came up for sale with a lot of other machines recently for $250 in Perth. Needless to say I bit hard but didn't get it. Cheers, Zac

Was that through an auction Zac?

I did see the one in Sydney - bit rich for my likings given it's state and have come to the conclusion incomplete machines (as in the fundamentals) for the most part are just not worth the stuffing around trying to get them up to spec.

The longer term goal, what ever I get, would get a spiral helical head from Robert Gregory up in Harvey Bay, Queensland (Woodcraft Supplies About us). This is purely for a superior cut and noise reduction. My current machine is really quite and can't image going back to traditional blades.

Originally Posted by Charlie_6ft

Was that through an auction Zac?

Just through Marketplace in Perth Charlie. There was a group of machines being sold and individual prices were listed but they all sold together. I posted a pic of the UOS on here about 2 or so months ago. Cheers, Zac

Thanks Zac - ironically I replied to that post

Wadkin Bursgreen OUS

I guess someone took the whole lot - why wouldn't you if you live over there!

Hi Charlie,

There's a pretty nice looking Wilson over under machine in Perth with about a day left to run on the auction. Looks all but identical to the Wadkin UO/S. Lot 12 in the link below:

Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers (auctions.com.au)

Cheers, Zac.

Thanks Zac, I haven't checked in here for about a week. Missed that - went for a decent price but freight to Brisbane would have been a killer!

Do like the Wilson stuff - not too common in Australia.

Hi Charlie this one just came up for sale in Perth. It looks like the one that was for sale previously. 登录 Facebook | Facebook

Thanks - I've messaged ol'mate

Well this was going well. The guy wanted $1k for all four machines:

Wadkin UOS
Burgsgreen Bandsaw
Wadkin BRA
Some sort of drill press which looked ½ decent

Because I just wanted the UOS he was asking $500 - great, awesome, sounds to me like a good buy, just need to sort out freighting from Perth to Brisbane which I had a couple of quotes for and ready to pull the trigger.

Along comes ol'mate (no intention to buy by the sounds of it) in the mean time tells the seller the UOS is worth $3,000 ... thats the end of me acquiring this machine - bummer!

Thanks ol'mate

You win some, you lose some... my search continues...

Anyway some pictures of this machines it needs a bit of work and unsure if it is running as the seller couldn't test it because of the plug on it. He did say it was running before they moved workshops sometime ago but it's obviously had some water damage. Perhaps someone local to Perth has luck with buying it.

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Originally Posted by Charlie_6ft

Well this was going well. The guy wanted $1k for all four machines:

Wadkin UOS
Burgsgreen Bandsaw
Wadkin BRA
Some sort of drill press which looked ½ decent

Because I just wanted the UOS he was asking $500 - great, awesome, sounds to me like a good buy, just need to sort out freighting from Perth to Brisbane which I had a couple of quotes for and ready to pull the trigger.

Along comes ol'mate (no intention to buy by the sounds of it) in the mean time tells the seller the UOS is worth $3,000 ... thats the end of me acquiring this machine - bummer!

Thanks ol'mate

You win some, you lose some... my search continues...

Anyway some pictures of this machines it needs a bit of work and unsure if it is running as the seller couldn't test it because of the plug on it. He did say it was running before they moved workshops sometime ago but it's obviously had some water damage. Perhaps someone local to Perth has luck with buying it.

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That is so poor by the Seller.

I wouldn't despair though - I doubt he'll sell it for anything close to 3K. Hopefully he comes around after it's been on the market for another couple of weeks with no bites.

Thanks for the extra pictures! It looks in reasonable nick apart from the surface rust on the tables.

Cheers, Zac.