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27th July 2022, 07:41 PM #106
I would not use Brass for clamps, it is too soft
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27th July 2022, 07:46 PM #107
You could be right. I have no idea if the aluminium-bronze the foundry used is harder or softer than brass (which of course also comes in various hardnesses). I'll just need to be a bit careful I suppose - and not attempt to crush any wood I'm holding down.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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5th September 2022, 10:03 PM #108
Finally dragged this out ... I should really finish it ..
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6th September 2022, 11:52 AM #109SENIOR MEMBER
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Love these machines! Yaaaas finish it!!! Looking forward to see her complete
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6th September 2022, 06:49 PM #110
Here you go Matty - seeing as photos always misbehave from your device (rotated and lightly cropped).
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LP 438, test 4087, tested on 7th July, 1926.
LP 438 4087 Aus.jpg LP 438 4087 Matty.jpg
I'd be interested to see how you repaired your cracked table - if you took any pictures to record the repair.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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8th September 2022, 12:06 AM #111
Your a gentleman Vann, thank you. I don't have a computer so l post from my Phone .. it's tricky, l very much appreciate you fixing my pics, as I'm sure everyone looking is too.
I'll take some pics of the finished table, we got it flat and welded up the holes .. it's of to Haslam engineering to be washed ground even flatter ..
Melbourne Matty.
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10th July 2023, 09:55 PM #112
Lp 519.
Another LP has shown up. This is only the sixth I've seen pictures of.
LP 519a.jpg LP 519b.jpg
LP 519. It's test number and tag style suggest it's from late 1928or early 1929.
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Mine (LP 410, of 1925) is the earliest LP of the six. Matty's LP 438, of 1926 has the rotating table (a feature mine lacks).
Here you can see the ball lever handle for rocking table rotation.
LP 519c.jpg
And this as a tee slot along the front of the table (for longitudinal stops) whereas mine has a single bar.
Both mine and Matty's originally had the motor/belt drive down low at the back. On later models an electric motor was mounted up high.
The motor on this LP is a relatively new motor (being finned) - definitely not original. It appears that the casting protrusion is bored for a horizontal shaft (like later machines) not for a vertical shaft (like mine and Matty's). But while there is a boss (above the tag), it has never been bored for a tension adjustment handle like the later machines.
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The welded motor mount is definitely not OEM either.
Add to that, that the tag specifies countershaft R.P.M. and I suspect that in spite of the casting protrusion orientation, this machine was originally a lineshaft driven machine like Matty's.
Anyway, here's a list of known Wadkin LP recessing and boring machines:
LP 410, of 1925 - New Zealand (mine);
LP 438, of 1926 - Australia (Matty's);
LP 519, of 1928/29 - UK;
LP 606, of 1932 - UK;
LP 620, of 1933 - UK;
LP 636, of 1934 - UK (wallace's).
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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15th March 2024, 09:05 PM #113
Wallace has kindly sent me this picture of a batch of twelve LP recessors being assembled at the Wadkin works.
This batch is similar to my (and Matty's) earlier machines, as it has the main casting bored for a vertical shaft for the idler pulleys...
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...whereas later machines had the main casting bored for a horizontal shaft for the high-mounted motor.
However it appears this batch is older than mine, because whereas mine has "Wadkin" cast into the main casting...
LP 86.jpg My LP 410 of 1925.
...the machines in that batch have "Wadkin & Co. Leicester" lettering.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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18th March 2024, 08:42 PM #114
Another interesting photo forwarded by wallace. This appears to be where completed machines were stored, awaiting sale or dispatch.
I count 11 LP recessors and a larger, similar machine, all hiding behind a batch of spindle moulders.
These again are a similar era to my own machine, but this time at least a batch later. The main frame castings have only "Wadkin" lettering (no reference to Leicester) like mine. However, below the table these have a ball lever handle to lock the table rotation - a feature mine doesn't have, but Matty's does. So one of these might be Matty's LP recessor.
The image above is cropped from this photo.
Enjoy.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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20th March 2024, 02:32 PM #115Senior Member
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Jointers & table saws stacked 2 & 3 high.
A surfeit of delights for any sufferer of Wadkinitis!
Have fun,
Alli
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20th March 2024, 02:51 PM #116
Wadkin Jointer
Can anyone identify the Jointers in this pic extract taken from Vann's pic above, I thought they might be MJ's but the table extension which allows the fence to slide back to get maximum width looks wider to me, plus those electric motors look at least 15HP
Here's a link to a MJ, so you can see what I mean https://www.instagram.com/reel/C38LWehoNyD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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20th March 2024, 04:20 PM #117
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20th March 2024, 05:12 PM #118
Yes your right I missed that although I did think it looked strange, now when I look more closely there seems to be bolt hole lugs cast into the body of the main casting on each corner, so more than likely they were meant to be bolted to a workbench, I wounder if that large motor is single phase, to allow them to be set up on a building site.
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21st March 2024, 07:50 AM #119
Wadkin made a combo machine for building sites it did have a jointer, can’t remember what else.
I can’t dig out a photo at the moment as we’re on the way up north for a railtrail opening.
H.Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)
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23rd March 2024, 12:17 PM #120
They are early bench mounted type RB's, which makes the photo of the Wadkin factory from the 1920's
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