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My Charnwood W815 gave up the ghost yesterday, started intermittently slowing down then stopped completely. At 17.30 in the evening sent an email to them. by 10.30 this morning I'd had a phone call from Dave their technical man, result is that I've removed the motor & variable speed control &...

Recently I have had a motor fail on my bandsaw. Its an SIP 14" which isn't that old and everything is working well apart from the motor. It has two speed via the belt change, I tend to use it on the high speed most of the time, however when I do change to low speed it always seems too slow for...

This picture to show how I use a 3/4 hp single phase motor protected by this screen in front of the open ended motor I had. Kind regards Peter.

Guys, I've noticed recently on my JML-10141 mini lathe, approx 6-7 yrs old, that the motor gets extremely hot very quickly, even at slow speeds. Has anyone else come across this problem? And is it a problem? Looking at the parts manual and having a quick shifty of the motor without stripping it...

More about a supplier / Manufacturer than an actual tool but felt it was something that I had to mention.... A while ago I purchased an upgraded electric motor with speed control unit for my old Record Lathe. Everything was great until we decided to change the way we did things and took the...

I have a friendly Mechanic,I used this kit with a small blank of Honduras Rosewood with Sapwood and a real off the shelf Spark Plug. Removed the porcelain insert,cut the lower part off, made an adapter to fit the plug to the kit. It fits in the hand and is easy to use. Spent last night...

I turned my lathe on for the first time in a looooooong time, the spindle move about 1/8 of a turn and stopped. Checked the plug was in properly, the inverter showed it was doing 2300 rpm's, fight my way through the dust and cobwebs and open the door where the motor is, the belt was off...

This whole morning we spent at the Royal Australian Mint. Our host was the son of my very long term mate who same age as our visiting daughter from the US. He has 40 years experience there he joined them at age 15 as a Fitting and Turning Apprentice now a senior exec. We went through from...