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    Default Spot the Machine - 3223.

    Quote Originally Posted by auscab View Post
    ...And how is the HUGE looking drum sander left of the PK in the last picture, in the middle of the picture.
    What a giant .
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    I'm guessing that's the Thos. White & Sons 3 drum sander - machine 3223.



    I don't have access to any White catalogues to confirm.

    Cheers, Vann.
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    Default Spot the Machine - 3211.

    Quote Originally Posted by Vann View Post
    ...I know of a gentleman in Auckland who bought an LQ a year or two ago. I was hoping to visit him and check out his machines while in Auckland last week. Alas, he was away on holiday on Great Barrier Island. I wonder if it's the same LQ?...
    Nope. I finally caught up with him at the beginning of the month. His is a different Wadkin LQ.

    What he did have (pertinent to this thread) is a Pickles chisel mortiser.

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    Pic11.jpg That's it, centre of picture.

    Pic2.jpg Pic5.jpg Note the pressed steel tag "3211".

    Pic3a.jpg Pic1.jpg And the painted "3211".

    Pic4.jpg Motor and gearbox/clutch?

    Pic7.jpg That square chisel is HUGE

    John Pickles & Son Ltd. of Hebden Bridge, England. Serial No.3990.

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    And a quick quote so Allison gets notified of another Pickles - in a boatyard what's more...

    Quote Originally Posted by Allison74 View Post
    A great set of photos. I really like these sort of pics, a lost world...
    Cheers, Vann.
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    Look at all the dust extraction pipework...quick wheres BobL
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonyz View Post
    Look at all the dust extraction pipework...
    There's a funny story about that pipework.

    There were two separate extraction systems. 20 or so years later (late 1970s), for some reason (probably one of the two fans needed replacement) they decided to modify that pipework, by diverting the smaller system into the larger one. We (two young tradesmen) had just come out of our time, and had no experience of large ductwork. In fact the only experience was with small pressurised systems in passenger carriages.

    The company put up scaffolding. We approached the boss asking about design. He just said connect it from there to there, and use that galvanised sheet steel. So, over a period of a week or two we made it all up and fitted it, and they took the scaffolding away. When they started the system up a few days later the vacuum collapsed the new ducting . Sucked it flat . There was a fair amount of laughter in the Wood Mill that day. It wasn't our fault , we were just doing what we were told.

    Anyway, they couldn't justify more scaffolding (probably head office would have been shirty - I'd guess the boss kept it quiet and didn't tell them) so we made up new (thicker) ducting and installed it working off the electric cherry-picker.

    I'll bet if it had gone right the first time I wouldn't even remember they had chip extraction...

    Cheers, Vann.
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    Default Spot the Machine - 3232.

    In an earlier post - the one about the Wadkin PK - there was a spindle moulder sitting there, looking forlorn.

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    I knew it wasn't Wadkin because it has '... moulder' cast into the leading edge of the table.

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    Turns out it's a White MQ and the cast lettering reads 'White moulder'.

    White moulder.jpg

    So that's machine 3232 - Single spindle moulder.

    Cheers, Vann.
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    Some pictures for Vann, always enjoy your history write ups !

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    Gees if only we had time over again I sold a solid cast spindle moulder that I used as an apprentice cabinet maker for $50 just to be done with it, you know the song regrets I've had a few but oh well if only we had hind site.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mature one View Post
    Gees if only we had time over again...
    Yes, I'd certainly have taken much more interest in the machines. At the time they were just part of the furniture...

    To mis-quote the late John Clarke (alias "Fred Dagg") "we didn't know how lucky we were."

    Cheers, Vann.
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    And there's that lonely owwm feeling, I'm outa here....

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