Posted in quest on Nov 30th, 2016
I’ve been trying to focus my attention and energy on the new shop. Since it’s so easy to be distracted by shiny stuff, I’ve been avoiding the auctions and on-line sales. This past week, I got wind of sale that had some very interesting machines. To make maters worse, this is less than five miles from […]
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Posted in quest on Jun 2nd, 2014
Over the past week or so, several of you have reached out asking, speculating, wondering what it’s like to operate the Sagar Spindle Moulder with the box joint attachment. I always try to give the people what they want, so here goes: I moved the machine from the garage over to the shop this past […]
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Posted in quest on May 28th, 2014
Lately, I’ve been buying shapers like it’s nobody’s business (meaning I have no business owning this many shapers) A few weeks ago, I received this little gem from the United Kingdom: It’s a very sweet little Sagar shaper with a Wadkin rolling table attachment and a very large set of box joint cutters on it. […]
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Posted in quest on May 3rd, 2014
On a recent trip to England, this little spindle moulder caught my eye: I had been looking for a cheap shaper I could steal the fence from. I have a few European machines that are missing the split style fences that mount into the dovetailed slots on the table. As an example, this Pierre […]
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Posted in quest on Aug 20th, 2012
After the “No Quadrant? No Problem!” article went up, I got a bunch of requests for the rough castings. My original patterns were pretty basic and after cranking out four sets of the quadrants for the Wadkin PK, I decided I should refine the pattern to help reduce the number of machine operations required to […]
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Posted in quest on Apr 8th, 2012
So let’s say you went out and bought yourself a really nice Wadkin PK dimension saw. This is the holy grail of table saws (unless you own a Whitney No. 77 Variety saw with a rolling table). Your friends will be so impressed. You take a whole bunch of pictures of the difficult removal and […]
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Posted in quest on Feb 29th, 2012
There’s a hole in my neighborhood down which of late I cannot help but fall -Elbow Some machines are hard to find. Even impossible. As scarce as hen’s teeth, as scarce as the truth or as scarce as butter (if you live in Norway) I spent the better part of the past ten years turning […]
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Posted in quest on Feb 14th, 2012
I found this Wadkin EP shaper on e-bay this morning. Interestingly, the table appears to have been rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This basically moves the operator position to the right side of the shaper. I’m trying to figure out why you’d do this. The shaper on the left is the machine in question. The […]
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Posted in Auction Results, quest on Apr 9th, 2011
On June 21st, 2010, Maynards hosted the on-line liquidation of Cole Pattern & Engineering in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is another sale that I stumbled upon while searching for Wadkin parts. The only item I was interested in was a Wadkin WL 20 vertical milling machine. This mill is much bigger and heavier than any […]
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Posted in quest on Jun 16th, 2010
On May 26th, 2010, Koster Industries hosted the on-line liquidation of Peerless Aluminum Foundry in Bridgeport, CT. <txp:article_image/> I happened upon the on-line ad for this auction while searching for some Wadkin parts (the day before the sale). What caught my eye was a Wadkin RU lathe. The RU is a pattern makers lathe […]
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