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Hi I’ve realised that I have been very stupidly omitting to grease the gearbox on my Wadkin Baos 12 Ive always worried about the huge cost of replacing parts and somehow didn’t notice the gearbox on the manual which says it needs a turn a week. Ive had the machine 2 years but lucky it has been...

Thanks wallace So the EQ comes with two spindles?

I’d forgotten about reducers, thanks 🙂

Doug do you mean parts 76 and 77 the groverlock spring dowels? They do look like they might be pins

Thanks Doug That sounds very sensible I’ll look through

Sorry, looking at it wrong there, would it be a case of getting the thread that attaches to the work spindle machined along with the work spindle as originally planned so that both could be fitted with a locking washer? As I said I was only planning on using the machine in one direction and...

Not sure how to write on that post, so is it the spindle draw bolt that’s my problem?

Damn I’d read that some spindles worked that way I’ve sunk a lot of money into tooling already, and have no use for any of it running the other way I wonder if it’s possible to get the shaft altered?

God that sounds terrifying, yes I’m pretty scared by what could happen if I’m not careful so I’ll definitely be doing my best to be

Hi Gareth thanks for the reply Yes, feeding left to right, that’s why the motor needs to run in reverse, that machine will only ever run in reverse because I don’t want to have potential mix ups with which way it goes. I’m planning to add the locking washer channel that most modern machines have...

Because of grain orientation on the job I’m doing, if I go the other way it will not work.

Hi I have a wadkin ber 2 and need to run it in reverse for the jobs I need it to do. A friend of mine was round the workshop the other day and said he really wasn’t sure if I should run it in reverse and I should definitely check that the motor was capable of it and wasn’t going to take off...

I will definitely be doing that!

Thanks wallace, the machine was £700 + collecting £160 though I also picked up a wadkin spindle moulder on the way back :D

Thats great thank you! the manual says once a year for the motors, though they wont be running daily, so I guess less for me and weekly for the gears etc, so Ill just keep an eye on them

Thanks Trevanion! Ive used Gradus for the grease as I already had that for my lathe, the oil that wadkin specifies is power em125 but I cant see online what that one became Phew! just been reading about over greasing, I had no idea, I gave the motors a squirt each so hopfully not too much

thanks! thats actually my first job when I get in this morning I started yesterday but was unsure if I was doing it correctly, and at the moment it isnt wired in so I cant move the cogs, do you just squirt grease over them? Ive also been trying to work out what oil i should use, it seems most...

I've just bought a Wadkin 12" BAOS planer thicknesser on ebay, I already have an old wadkin bandsaw and had read, probably on here people saying how good the planer was and decided that was exactly what I was after. I had a brief look at it as we loaded it onto the truck and it looked great...