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I thought all the newer brushless units ( X2) were belt drive . Could be wrong though !

Peter just buy bigger speakers and a massive amp ! Music is best served very loud !

I record a radio programme every saturday and sunday ( it starts at 4am so i have little chance of listening to it any other way ) i usually play that when i'm in the shed , sometimes i have a dvd going - usually a movie i have seen a trillion times and bridge over the river kwai or the great escape or dam busters are favourites . I don't really watch them just listen to them and occasionally look at the screen usually when i take a swig of my tea or coffee.

There are many suppliers of these machines around the world but even though they look very similar there are a couple of factories in China that produce them - some are better than others .

As you are totally new to this hobby and machining telling the diffrence betwwen a good machine and a dud may be a bit difficult and the specs for various machines from different suppliers can change , things like motor power , table size etc - at least with Arc you are buying from a well respected seller and have the piece of mind that there is backup should there be an issue with anything - which i would doubt there would be .

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I have to have something to listen to or i talk myself to death 😄

Pva wood glue works well and you can just soak it to get the template off without having to scub it to death .

I would probably steer towards an X2 instead of an X1 for a mill and a C2 for a lathe :but all this really depends on what size stuff you want to work with .

I will repeat what i have stated many times before - if you are not really into restoring machines - buy new unless you know the person selling the used machine and know its history , there are just to many pitfalls a newcomer can fall into with used machinery .

Ketan at Arc will look after you .

The first cut is the deepest - cat stevens .

Can't touch this- M.C. Hammer  - stop ! Its hammer time ! 

No plans - Cold Chisel 

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Have a look on joe piezynski youtube channel he did a good video explaining the merits of threading away from the chuck and why that is the only way he does it now .

Home made arbor press using the steering shaft out of a rack and pinion steering unit , the angle on the handle is so a std spur gear meshes with the angles teeth on the rack.

Currently set up as a punch and the punch and die are probably home made also , depending on the throat height it can also be used to broach keyways and a a general light duty oress in the workshop . Handy bit of kit !

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I have done the waltz with a drill press once or twice . My first workshop under mums house had bricks as pavers around the bench but hard dirt everywhere else , my brother scored an old drill press for me and at firts it just sat on the dry dirt . Aftrer the first incident ilashed the head up to the floor joists with rope as being 13 that was all a could afford ! I'm still here so must have worked 😄

None of mine are although i did have to modify the big lathe cabinet to make it less likely to topple over as its footprint was very narrow . My smaller lathe and mill are on home built rolling cabinets and i just fixed them to a couple of wall studs with some angle brackets - haven't moved in the last five years ! With the mill wind the table out to one side and give the head a nudge to see if it wants to topple easily towards the overhanging table side , if it doesn't feel nice and steady bolt it down - my stand has a big footprint so is pretty stable .

Aren't doctors and nurses also model engineers ? Surely we have to have something up on the forum to keep them interested also ? Given a set of instructions or a youtube video i reckon there would be a few model engineers on this forum that would attempt brain surgery on themselves ! Maybe model engineer ran an article on it a hundred years ago ? I dunno I wasn't here to read it .

Baz ,

You may find defining exactly what a model engineer actually is harder than calculating Pi to the last decimal piont on an abacus !

STOPP PRESS!!

It now appears that gardeners are model engineers as well !  A new thread has appeared like a bolt of lightning from the heavens but has been put into the wrong topic /category - well there is no gardening category or topic i can see so looks like its off  to the tea room for that thread ! 

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Nup we have now found a nice new meaty thing to discuss in another thread - Medical issues !!! 😍😍😍

BLIIIIISSSS !!!!!

I have heard that if the ring runs across your eyes or ears it can send you blind or deaf .

From memory ( and there is a high probability I'm wrong ) the virus lies dormant in your spinal fluid and a weakening of the immune system can re activate it .

I wonder if there has ever been a case of it running through a persons nether regions ? Now that would give you a positive outlook on life wouldn't it 😄

I remember having to sleep sitting up with my arms propped up on pillows so nothing touched the affacted area - just the slightes touch was like being burned with a blowtorch .

Now where is my big wooden spoon - this pot needs stirring !!

SOD , thank goodness it wasn't a fungal crotch infection !

On a serious note i had shingles many years ago and if i had to choose between the pain from a prolapsed disc in my back and pain of a band of shingles running around my chest and through both nipples the prolapsed disc would be welcome anytime ! I had never heard of them at the time and went to my local gp who prescribed some medication , i went to the chemist - which was packed at the time and the lady behind the counter looked at my scrip and at the top of her voice pronounced " oh you have shingles" - did you know they are a form of herpes? that chemist shop emptied out pretty fast i can tell you ! Never a more embarrassing moment in my life has there ever been !

Another thing to check is the gear rack that the apron handwheel gear meshes with - I have seen one that wasn't seated properly and caused some binding .If it does end up being a bit tight because of a bed grind issue - provided the top surfaces are not stepped ( if the grind on theses surfaces looks nice and uniform they are most likely ok ) it could just be a burr on the underside ( sear ) where the gib strips run so i light hit with a small oilstone will sort that out . Remember a bed will wear the most ( usually ) in that first few hunded millimeters from the chuck as this is were most lathes cop most of thier use so it isn't the end of the world - provided the lathe is machining round and parallel i wouldn't have a breakdown over it .

A lesson to be learned for the newcommer - before you go pulling a machine apart to " clean it " wipe the rust proof gunk of the sliding surfaces like the bed or the dovetails on the mill then a bit of oil on them for lube . Go over the machine looking for any obvious faults and test its operation , it is also worth checking some basic adjustments like the gibs and adjust as needed - any faults like tight / loose spots will show up . At least then if the machine is a lemon you should nave no issues getting it replaced by the supplier - once you start ripping it to pieces you run the risk of voiding the warranty .

On a ramps board the heating power controll is separate to the motor power so it wont make any difference , the motor controllers are designed for 17 sized motors with a 2 amp current and you will have to tune the controllers - plenty of stuff on the internet or youtube about that and it is fairly easy .

The main reason for disabling the heating is so the gcode doesnt hang waiting for something to heat up that isnt there or stall because of an alarm for overtemp / too long a heating time .

Looking at the unit you have listed from ebay :

Panel pins are : 1 positive ( 8-24v )

2 negative

3 signal gnd

5 signal +

on the sensor brown + blue - and black signal but the shcematic ( if one could call it that ) shows it connected to the + rail via what looks like a pullup resistor although idoesnt show a value .

If you hook up the sensor to power and rotate the magnet past it does the red led ( next to where the cable enters the sensor)   light up ? The pull up resistor keeps the signal pin high until the transistor inside the hall sensor turns on pulling the pin low try a 10k resistor between the positive and the black sensor wire .

The units i have didn't need a magnets just a disk with a cut out section ,

Edited to exterminate one of those winky things that keep chasing me ! Die you B***tard  !!!

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Yep ! Or just hang 💩 On myfords ! That usually gets a reaction of biblical proportions !

The electronics mag i mentioned above ran an article a long time ago about this then new 3d printing technology and i sent an email to the editor at the time with a few thoughts on how these could one day be household items and with the correct development of polymers print a lot of diffrent things . He returned my email more or less calling me a loony and a heretic as these things will NEVER be affordable to the household hobbyists and the technology will remain as industrial use only ! guess who is laughing now !

The trick i find with threads like this is add just the right comment at the right time that hits a nerve or two and wait for the pot to start boiling - then stir occasionally!

This is almost as good as parliment question time ! Almost that is !

Neil, looking back at my back issues of radio and hobbies and model engineer i see what you mean ! I wonder what caused the subject matter to be narroewd down ? Some may have been legal reasons with the inrush of OHS like matters , some may have been reader preferences ? I know of a local electronics mag i read that is trying to broaden its subject matter with articles about cutting edge technology - not just electronics tech either ! and it seems to be working .