Thread: Make an offer ?? Wadkin RC Buzzer

That would make your day wouldn't it!!

A mate had the same thing happen to a Wadkin 24" under and over.
His 'mate' had changed the cutters and didn't finish in one go.
As he was a toolmaker he fixed it, what he bought as a bargain from the School furniture factory where it had survived decades of use became an expensive exercise.
H.

Boy I hope no one was using it when the cutter let go. That is surely "heavy metal".

Originally Posted by auscab

...There is a good enough Tag pic in there I think Vann.

Test No. 3312 would probably be early 1920s (I still trying to confirm that Test No.s around 4300 date to 1926-28). I don't know how the seller came to the conclusion that it's a 1950-60 machine?

I don't know prices over there, but with both tables broken I doubt it would be worth over $100 - except maybe to another Wadkin RC owner with a different broken casting.

Cheers, Vann.

Yes , how P'd off would you be at yourself for doing that to a machine you really liked .

And standing near it when it happened would be something that would shake you about a bit I think .

Standing using a band saw when the blade snaps is bad enough !! First time that happened to me nothing
was said , I was standing there and someone just handed me a roll of Toilet paper.

The guy would be better of fixing it himself if he could . The best side hobby which helped my woodworking I ever did was metal work . Blacksmith and welding and Brazing courses. Selling it off then having to pay for another wouldn't be nice.
Rob

I bet that woke up everyone in the shop when it happened.He claims it's the original motor but the tag mentions countershaft pulleys so that seems unlikely.Lucky no-one got hurt.Alli

Originally Posted by auscab

Yes , how P'd off would you be at yourself for doing that to a machine you

Standing using a band saw when the blade snaps is bad enough !! First time that happened to me nothing
was said , I was standing there and someone just handed me a roll of Toilet paper.

Rob

When I worked at Ballina Slipway and Engineering in the 80s the 36" bandsaw up there would break a blade a week. The students at the places I taught at in later life were always instructed to never stand in the line of fire, ie to my right at the edge of the table.
Most blades get trapped, some even wrap up and rip the edge off the rubber on the wheel.
The ones that come out bounce off the tabletop and in my recollection travel in a straight line.
H.