Thread: Wadkin Super 500 parts manual

I have done the jointer like that but to be honest I didn't like it much.

Best method I worked out when making 30 pine bookcases for a job.It was all 250x25 Hoop Pine.

I laminated up some timber extensions for the spindle moulder fence about 900mm long each side.Offset the fences and used the power feed to feed the boards on their flat sides.Had a roller set up each side of the spindle moulder to help with the feed in and out.Worked perfectly and no balancing act with the wide boards.I used a big Wadkin serrated blade head with the cutters hanging out a bit which gave a nice big cutting diameter and a great planed finish.

Same setup then for the rebate for the ply back in the cases.

The spindle set up would still be easier even without the power feed for jointing wide boards.

So happy with that that I mounted the power feed onto the panel saw next and power fed them through to rip them to width.The cut was fine to use as the back edge of the bookcase.

My old Jet 500mm thicknesser wouldn't go down enough to dress the edges parallel.

Funny how back then I thought nothing of shifting a big power feed from machine to machine.Picked up that little one the other day and wished I hadn't.

Originally Posted by localele

Mounted the old power feed from the RD16 onto the Super 500...

How about a genuine Wadkin power feed?

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I wonder if it left rubber burn-out marks all down the timber?

Cheers, Vann.

Well that thing is spectacular.

Lower the tyre pressure and it would slide the RD across the floor.

Now I know why they put the hold down bolts into the floor when the RD already weighed 600 kgs.

Does it have a part number and description anywhere in the library?

Originally Posted by localele

...Does it have a part number and description anywhere in the library?

This is all I have.

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I believe it's from a 1952 catalogue - though I would have thought it's more 1930s.
- the RD in the pictures has a 1936 to 1951 style of tag (not very helpful).
- the switchgear door on the RD has a reset button which was eliminated about 1946.

Cheers, Vann.

Nice bit of info.Thanks Vann.

I do enjoy a bit of machinery history.

Has anyone ever seen that power feeder in the flesh before?