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18th April 2016, 09:27 PM #1
Extreme Wadkinitus
Well folks, here's my first cut - test number, followed by model & serial number, then country of residence...
Pre-1937
1313 - JY 107 (bobbin sander) – Australia;
2085 - ME 239 – New Zealand;
3197 - RS 133 – New Zealand (RIP);
4616 - PKA 266 – UK;
4713 - DH 163 (bandsaw) – New Zealand;
4818 - PL 105 (dimension saw) – UK > USA
5029 - RTA 148 – UK;
5391 - MN 133 - Canada;
7671 - RS 115 – UK;
1937
8446 - MJ 413 – UK;
9067 - PKA 390 – Australia;
9335 - RBA 183 (buzzer) – UK;
1938
9650 - PKA 405 – Australia;
9783 - PKA 412 - UK.
1939
11455 - CC 1059 - New Zealand;
1940
14594 - PKA 554 - Ireland;
15111 - RDA 441 (buzzer) – Australia;
1941
17392 - PKA 613 - UK;
1942
18695 - PKA 643 - New Zealand;
1944
22583 - PKA 725 - Scotland > Canada;
1945
24671 - PKA 785 - Australia;
25031 - PKA 800 - New Zealand;
27390 - MA 563 – UK;
1946
26657 - LQA 415 - USA;
26763 - MG 699 - New Zealand;
1947
29157 - PKA 969 - UK;
1948
30253 - PKA 994 - UK;
31145 - RD 694 - New Zealand;
1949
35284 - RE 668 (thicknesser) - Canada;
1950
35723 - PK 1202 - UK;
35898 - RR 142 (buzzer) - New Zealand;
36021 - RTA 339 - New Zealand;
36376 - RT 357 - New Zealand;
36408 - RE 705 (thicknesser) - New Zealand;
36554 - PK 1231 - UK;
36572 - PKF 108 - Canada;
37023 - PK 1271 - USA;
37264 - PK 1277 - Australia;
37727 - CQ 237 - Australia;
38139 - MG 987 - New Zealand;
38305 - SQ 319 - New Zealand;
38458 - FD 799 (five head moulder) – New Zealand;
1951
38946 - CC 2388 - New Zealand;
40404 - RTA 405 - UK;
41145 - RTA 380 - New Zealand;
41376 - RM 2039 - Canada;
1952
41587 - SP 610 - Australia;
41689 - PK 1437 - Canada;
420256 - PK 1445 - Canada;
42461 - PK 1451 - Canada;
42578 - RS 1291 (wood lathe) - Canada;
42825 - RR 299 (buzzer) - New Zealand;
1953
45347 - LQ 674 - New Zealand;
46020 - RS 1415 (wood lathe) - Canada;
46212 - JY 498 (bobbin sander) - Canada;
46284 - NQ 312-S - Canada?;
1954
48966 - LM 1266 - UK;
49379 - PK 1702 - Canada;
49784 - PK 1718 - Canada;
50585 - FD 1125 - Canada?
1955
50716 - PK 1754 - New Zealand;
51434 - PK 1778 - Canada > USA;
1956
53723 - PK 1863 - Canada;
53792 - RK 282 (thicknesser) – USA;
54256 - PK 1882 - USA;
54421 - PK 1887 - UK;
54425 - PK 1892 - Australia;
54477 - PK 1899 - Canada > USA;
54478 - PK 1900 - UK;
54521 - RM 2817 - New Zealand;
54580 - JY 569 (bobbin sander) - Canada;
54581 - CC 3253 (RAS) - Canada;
55049 - PK 1947 - Australia;
55228 - LQ 865 - Canada;
55670 - PK 1975 - Canada;
55676 - PK 1982 - UK;
I've stopped at 1956 at this time, as that's when Wadkin and Bursgreen got together and the waters begin to muddy (although I could probably go to 1960 without problems).
I'll add more as they come to my attention. Feel free to contribute.
Cheers, Vann.Last edited by Vann; 19th April 2016 at 03:26 AM. Reason: 46020 - missing serial number added
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19th April 2016, 07:37 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Jack, I see you got a nice mention in the latest Furniture and Cabinetmaking UK magazine.
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Vann you seem to be in quite a sorry state with this condition but there is a cure!!
It may sound a bit New Age or even Eastern Esoteric but this is what you do.
Stand in front of your Wadkin altar and breathe calmly.
Three prostations to the pictures of Green Lanes, 3 to the Wadkin Temple in the Great White Northern Land.
Sit down at your altar, gaze with unwavering focus at your various favourite Wadkin images and chant.
"Robinson, Sagar, Stenner, Cooksley, Haigh, Wilson, Dominion, White, Ransome and Pickles" a minimum of a thousand times while keeping count on your rosary of coloured beads (any colour but grey) and then relax into the tranquil state of mind that is free from the daily fixation of wadkin.
With persistence this daily practice will free you from your deluded state of mind.
Have fun,
Alli
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19th April 2016, 09:40 PM #5Gatherer of rusty
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19th April 2016, 09:47 PM #6
Some Aussies I know have made the pilgrimage to the great wadkin temple in the north to visit the mystical high priest.
I have heard great things, some returning down under in a now zen state claiming to have achieved perfect enlightenment.
I hope too to make the journey one day ....
Melbourne Matty.
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19th April 2016, 10:48 PM #7
You don't know the half of it Matty.
You drive down the street and there across a round about is a single story bit of suburbia.
Its the right address but it just doesn't look like Wadkin in the land of Joe.
Turn right around the traffic circle and what's that framing the double garage doors?
A pair of mortisers and in the middle a long lathe bed, to its left under a silver wrapping a DR36.
Edit... There's also an RD16 out there.
I won't bore you with what's inside you'll have to get a bait from our Guru.
H.Last edited by clear out; 19th April 2016 at 10:50 PM. Reason: Forgot the RD16
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19th April 2016, 11:19 PM #8
I think it's all rather fun. Henry's been and now one of your oldest students Matty . Tony Martin is taking his belated journeyman pilgrimage across North America and it was a delight to share the craft with him and meet another Auzzie . You trained him well . The temple doors are never locked . Just walk right in and join in the chant :::::::::::"Only pickles are green"
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19th April 2016, 11:28 PM #9Senior Member
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Ah,
the perfect acolyte.
So stunned by the aura of the temple that all he beholds become godlike in his mind.
A mere DR30 becomes a DR36, the pinnacle of bandsaws in his fevered imagination.
The mortiser is a Stenner but such is the hold upon his imagination that he sees such quality and thinks it must be one of the hallowed Wadkins!
Such is the sad slippery path of the acolyte!
Pickles were always only grey. Wadkins turned green with envy!!
Have fun,
Alli
(the owner of the biggest Wadkin of any colour in town!)
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20th April 2016, 08:34 AM #12
Just as well this is a fun thread (except for Vanns excellent info) as I have completely lost everyone I think.
I was referring to my recent visit to Raymond's place up in Queensland not Jacks over in Canada.
By the way I prefer any colour than grey, I served my time at a naval dockyard and everything was grey.
So put me in Ali and Dennis's green camp for now.
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Hi Henry,
I think you're wrong. We have to be serious about this.
We either encourage and support the Cult of Wadkin so that the true followers will only buy Wadkins and leave all the other good stuff alone for the rest of us mere mortals.
Or
We break them of their habit and get them all chasing the other stuff and that leaves the Wadkins for us.
There can be no half measures in this, it's a war of values.
Not those nebulous ethical principles etc but strictly monetary values. When the acolytes drive the prices up so that a rusty lathe goes for over $2000 and then the Chief Priest intones that it's cheap because in the Great White Northern Land they sell for $6000 then the rest of us have to act to save our bottom feeder approach to the old machine market. It's truly a clash of ideologies being waged across the globe.
Vann is a perfect example. He started out a nice "normal" guy, bought an old Preston bandsaw, it came from a totally Wadkin free shop. Then slowly it happened. First the PK virus and then when that has taken hold and riddled his poor soul he has slipped into such a parlous state that there has to be doubt about his future. Sitting in a darkened room trapped by a glowing screen typing endless lists of numbers, dates and acronyms!
My heart goes out to such lost souls
Navy - "Paint everything grey"
Army _ "Paint everything green"
So maybe a nice blue or black with red or gold highlights
Have fun,
Alli
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