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Cheers for the info, as I said I have emailed ARC and there is no rush in this, just the pondering of a Friday evening and if someone else had done it before. The lockdown is just giving me a chance to bring some further order to the workshop and this was on the list.

thanks again for all the replies.

Cheers for the replies,

Peter, I’ve tried a new battery and it worked for a couple of months and then died, there’s power sockets on the mill and it seems a sensible move to put it onto a mains supply rather than going through battery’s, my height gauge seems to go through them at a similar speed.

Stuart, that’s exactly what I was looking for, I thought a 3v supply would be required,I’ll wait till ARC confirm but knocking up a 3v supply and a straight USB to micro USB lead would be ideal. I like having the display on the quill instead of with the rest of the DRO for drilling.

Cheers Dave, just wanted to check that it wouldn’t kill it before just diving straight in with that, will give it a try.

cheers

Chris

Hi John,

I thought I did turn it off and don’t often use the quill but it appears to turn on of it’s own accord, I’ll try and be more careful about turning it off but it’s seems a waste off battery’s being by a plug socket

cheers

chris

Hi,

Hope this is in the correct section and I’ve not found a thread about this before.

ive got a 6 inch scale from ARC on the Quill of my Bridgeport and it eats battery’s, my question is can I run this off a power supply, it’s got a micro USB port on the side and is powered by a internal button cell CR2032 3v.

I've emailed ARC but I’m impatient so I thought I’d ask the knowledge on here, below is a link to the ones I’m talking about.

**LINK**

TIA

Chris

Qualified on a new type of traction this week, class 68 diesel, and am making good progress on a 5c collet adapter for my Harrison 140.

Chris

If it’s at the bottom I would guess it’s the front tubeplates washout plug.

C

Thanks Brian, will look it up this week on the archive, I wanted to fit it inside the electrical cabinet on the lathe but I didn't think the amount of dust in it would help the VFD at all.

cheers

well I'm not too bothered about legality in my home workshop but I do like to try and do things to best practise, the tails on the incoming 240v are as short as they can be to flex enough into the terminals and through the plastic guides on the VFD , I did try fitting heat shrink over them but that didn't work, what would be your suggestion 'not done it yet'?

thanks in advance

Chirs

Edited By Chris Barry on 12/03/2018 06:43:00

No, the vfd converts it to 240v, a rotary converter would have allowed the lathe to run as it was but to get the higher speed, to get the higher speed I would of needed to buy a new motor in both cases, the vfd route and motor was half the cost of the rotary converter without even thinking of the cost for a two speed motor.

Cheers

Hi Tony,

Couldn’t get round the back for a picture of the motor, it was recommended after talking with the people at transwave. I plan to eventually rewire the machines controls so I can get rid of the pendant. All the wiring is just connecting the VFD, motor, pendant and the mains, so simple even I managed it.

Two pictures showing the VFD and pendant.

Hope these are of help.

Hi Tony and George,

On the motor from I got a higher speed one from transwave that also works with a VFD, all seems to work well and the motor mountings on the lathe made the fitting of it relatively simple.

With the bed stop I found one on that online auction site a couple of months ago, probably paid over the odds for it but they seem to be as rare as rocking horse do do.

Cheers

Chris

HI,

The handle for the compound slide on my Harrison has always had one side missing since i've had it, i've done the usual google searches but i've been unable to find one of the right size.

the critical dimensions are a 8 mm bore and the handles to be in the area of 38mm radius, if anyone knows of a supplier i'd be most grateful otherwise i'll just turn up a plain disc one and fit a handle.

thanks in advance

That’s great,

Thanks Michael

Cheers

C

As far as I know, it’s all the actual raised metal work picked out, all I’ve done to it coming out of the car boot is lift it from the bench to the trolley.

C

chrisBusy week in the workshop, got the new coolant pump from arceuro plumbed into the lathe, welded up a new trolley for a wood working Bandsaw donated to by a friend and making some new racking for metal out of some gutter pieces. Just a picture of the trolley awaiting a shelf and painting (plus a good clean in the workshop). The tidy actually started after the picture was taken.

Cheers

Chris

Cheers Michael

On my 140 I've fitted a multifix toolpost, had to make a adapter for it to fit the large T slot on the compound slide, does the job a treat. Sorry about the angle of the pictures, no idea how to rotate them on my phone 👍🏻

Edited By Chris Barry on 26/05/2017 01:49:38

Edited By Chris Barry on 26/05/2017 01:51:30

The Lathes bearings are the high speed ones from built according to the manual, I've put a new motor 3hp motor with vfd on mine.

Very rarely run it higher but it's useful for finishing cuts.

Chris

i wash my footplate overalls and boiler suits on the hottest wash possible with vanish stain remover powder in the was draw as well as the usual washing products.

onc done i put the washing machine n another wash without anything in it or just my workshop jeans that are worn under the overalls, then white workshirts are always fine after that.

chris