Thread: Wadkin pattern mills abandoned in WA.

Ugh those poor things.

Hi,
Do you have a link to that, I searched greys and couldn't find anything.

Thanks,
Alli

Here we go.

http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0083-...achine-and-bed

http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0082-...achine-and-bed

Thanks!

2 of them,both later model WX's, that's a real pity. I think they will end up at the scrap yard. Too far for freight.

Thanks,
Alli

If there's no bids on them I might have to snap them up just to stop that happening. No idea where I'd put them but at that price it seems silly to let them be scrapped.

They are huge, my WS is 2 ton, the WX is 3.5 ton.

WA is way too far for me.

Good luck.
Alli

Whoa. Okay haha sounds like my eyes are bigger than my ute 😂

Big mill.jpg

That's a WP, the WX is slightly different but still BIG.
Have fun,
Alli

If they have some way of lifting I can get a tilt tray to move them

Regards

Dane

What a sight !

Originally Posted by Allison74

...2 of them,both later model WX's, that's a real pity. I think they will end up at the scrap yard...

Hopefully someone will adopt them, but if they do go to the scrapper then it would be great to grab a few switches and knobs for other Wadkins. For example:

WS1.jpg WX2.jpg WX3.jpg

Cheers & tears, Vann.

Wondering what these might be worth, I had a look on ePay UK. There are two listed (well within the first 2 or 3 pages of Wadkins). One for £5000, the other (including a cupboard full of cutters etc.) £1250. With less than two days to go the cheaper one with cutters hasn't had a bid.

I guess that as a commercial item, these millers have had their day - and as a hobby machine, few have room.

Their value is only what some enthusiast is willing to pay. At that, maybe the bids of $AU9.00 are closer to their current value than £1250.00.

It a shame to see such great engineering with so little value.

Cheers, Vann.

There'sone on an auction site in the US in good condition with a cabinet full of tooling and it's sitting on a $200 bid, unlikely to go for much. Without the tooling they are worthless, expensive to adapt them to run other stuff. If it was here I'd grab one just to get the table, it could be adopted to work for my WS , it has a lot more features but with it being in WA, it would be way too expensive in freight to justify it. They've been out in the weather for a while by the looks of them. Pity.

Have fun,
Alli

Well I was surprised, the one in the US went for US$1400 in the end.
But this is why

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A complete set of tooling and the machine was in excellent condition. I think these 2 have a different fate ahead.

Have fun,
Alli