wadkin JTA restoration

[AJB Temple]

Just outstanding. I wish the finished machine (when we see it) was mine.

 

[wallace]

This machine is not a keeper I've already got a bobbin and a little disc sander its just passing through for a bit surgery.
I got the motor sprayed and am just about ready to start putting it back together. I just need a decent pallet.
I really like doing the bronze cast tags

 

[murdoch]

Great restoration Wallace, we use lots of walking machines and love them. Do you ever get paid to restore other people's machines? Also, will this sander be for sale? Thanks for these threads, best topics on here and I really look forward to them.

 

[wallace]

I get the occasional request to restore a machine, I did a nice RS lathe for a cabinet maker a couple of months ago. This one will be finding a new home when finished.

 

[wallace]

Let the fun begin There are a couple of handles missing from this, its lucky I have a good selection of wadkin stuff in my stash because small wadkin items seem to making astronomical money on ebay. Did any fellow wadkinites notice that RS lathe carriage handle sell for nearly £80 :shock:

 

[wallace]

A bit more done

 

[wallace]

I couldn't resist just a little bit of shiny

 

[wallace]

The electrics have been the bane of my life, for nearly 10 days I have been trying to sort the original starters and they just would not play nice, in the end I found some suitable Brooks ones which took me 2 hrs to install I still need to tidy the wires up and add a rope gasket for the door.

I found some flexible conduit in my stash and it cleaned up well

 

[wallace]

I kept a tally of how many hours it took and it was about 97 hrs.
Heres a little clip of the bobbin part

https://youtu.be/dIzlI38YcUQ

And heres the disc side, my poor little static converter was chewing its pluck out trying to get that 30"disc spinning. It took over 60 secs to get up to speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWZhJmL ... e=youtu.be

 

[Fitzroy]

Green with envy at the machine, and the skill to restore them so well!

F.

 

[Vann]

Green with envy at the machine...

No no. This is a Wadkin, so you need to be grey (RAL 7011) with envy. Green is for the later Wadkin-Bursgreen machines :mrgreen:

Cheers, Vann.