wallace wrote:Ooh very cool, overhead routers sell for peanuts over here nowadays. They were probably one of the most produced machines wadkin built, but most get scrapped.
I picked up my holy grail lathe recently a RU which was wadkins second biggest they built. It has a sliding bed which is 3.2m
I was going to buy it for $300, knowing that the bearings were trashed. But it turned out that the collet was messed up too, so he offered it to me for free to get it out of his shop. I wound up paying him $400 to install the bearing, make a new collet nut, regrind the collet taper, and ship it the spindle assembly down to me. So I'm into my "free" machine for $1000 right now, plus another hundred for a new belt. And I haven't even started working!
Kirk