Wadkin 20” Planer. 18” Thicknesser.

[trigger_andy]

Buying this off of a mate today. I’ve used it for years and it’s a cracking bit of kit. 
 

Getting it delivered for £1500. Seems like a good price?

 

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

Buying this off of a mate today. I’ve used it for years and it’s a cracking bit of kit. 
 

Getting it delivered for £1500. Seems like a good price?

 

Probably about right if you know it is good.  Large old three phase machinery has quite a low value as it is too big for most DIY types and too old for many professionals.

[Brushcutter]

Seems the right sort of money. Use to use one a bit bigger than that. Are you going to run it 3 phase or swap it to 240

[topchippyles]

Looks like a 3 phase power cable a lot of those older machines run on 240 single phase.  Looks good andy price is about right to. 

[trigger_andy]

6 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Probably about right if you know it is good.  Large old three phase machinery has quite a low value as it is too big for most DIY types and too old for many professionals.

Its a funny market for sure. 

 

He was offered £2200 but I sweetened the deal with a buy-back option and he can use it when he needs to. 

[topchippyles]

30 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Its a funny market for sure. 

 

He was offered £2200 but I sweetened the deal with a buy-back option and he can use it when he needs to. 

Best of both worlds have you got access to 3 phase Andy.

[Conor Wright]

Bargain, what else would you get for that money?

Bullet proof old machines, an uncle of mine still runs an identical one today. its 3 generations in the family now and has never had a thing done to it, apart from blades as needed and a switch box when he moved it into his new (20 years ago) workshop.

be gentle transporting it though, they can be hard to get back true again if they get a whack or twist.

Hope you have an extractor!

 

[trigger_andy]

22 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Best of both worlds have you got access to 3 phase Andy.

Yeh, I have 3ph the Estate I keep my Mill at sometimes 

[trigger_andy]

4 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Bargain, what else would you get for that money?

Bullet proof old machines, an uncle of mine still runs an identical one today. its 3 generations in the family now and has never had a thing done to it, apart from blades as needed and a switch box when he moved it into his new (20 years ago) workshop.

be gentle transporting it though, they can be hard to get back true again if they get a whack or twist.

Hope you have an extractor!

 

Good point regarding transportation! Ill need to be there when its moved then. My mates roped Jewsons into moving it for us.

 

Yeh, I have an extractor that I bought for my Log Cabin Log Molder. Its a twin bag 3ph machine so should be up to the job

[Squaredy]

11 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Good point regarding transportation! Ill need to be there when its moved then. My mates roped Jewsons into moving it for us.

 

Yeh, I have an extractor that I bought for my Log Cabin Log Molder. Its a twin bag 3ph machine so should be up to the job

Looking at the machine it is difficult to see where the extraction pipes will go.  As it is a surface planer and a thicknesser it will need two extraction hoses, and I would say they will need to be re-arranged when you go from surface planing to thicknessing.  This will be the most difficult aspect of setup I would say.

 

 Is it currently used without extraction?