New Myford owner, have a few questions

For GFCI, read RCD ??

sorry, I dont follow.

Linguistic differences:

**LINK**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device

MichaelG.

Unfortunately not, as I am in Canada and not the UK. The options I can choose from for location are: Canada only, North America only, or worldwide.

So, if I want to find Myford items which for the most part come from UK based sellers then I have to choose worldwide which unfortunately includes hundreds and hundreds of items out of India, many of these are identical items from different sellers which makes scrolling through the results very difficult.

Clive

Ah, yes in the states we use the term gfci. It looks like the terms are interchangeable.

When searching you can sometimes use a "-word" to remove any items that have that word in it. dont need the quotes.. so for examplee, search on : myford chuck -independent

Last night I ordered some VFD cable (which is really expensive! Cost me $60 for a min quantity of 20' and some 9 conductor shielded wire for the controls. some guys are using filtering and contactors, but I dont want to get into all of that. I think I will just run the system off of a light switch that I have an outlet connected to. I hope that is ok?! 

Edited By Sub Wooer on 17/06/2021 18:39:53

Clive, is there any reason you can't log on to ebay.co.uk, rather than ebay.ca?
Your user name and password should still be the same, and I think you could then restrict the search to UK only or EU only.
I think you could do the same with ebay.de etc, but obviously the site then comes up in something other than English; maybe ebay.fr depending on your location in Canada and your linguistic abilities.

Bill

That does surprise me, I thought that you would have had better search choices or at least the same as us, there is also a little window at the top right of our search results which by default says 'ending soonest' if I click on this I get various choices to list results such as, nearest, highest price, lowest price, newly listed etc.

I've just done a test search on https://www.ebay.com the USA site, I don't know if this is the one you would use in Canada but there is an different option to ours at the top right of the page which reads 'best match' and clicking on this gives 'distance nearest first', but of course this wouldn't necessarily list UK first, my apologies to you if you have already tried these suggestions without success, as we say, I'm not trying to teach my Grandma how to suck eggs'

John

Bill thanks, excellent idea, I just tried ebay.co.uk and that works. One minor disadvantage is that it also shows listings that don't ship to Canada which I don't normally see, but that is relatively minor

John,
Thanks very much for taking the trouble to investigate, and absolutely no need to apologise, I really appreciate the advice.

Clive

It might last a year running on a light switch before the contacts go. You would be much better using a 3kw Immersion water heater switch. The startup current is at least double what the motor plate says.

Edited By Dave Halford on 17/06/2021 20:28:50

And now, before I completely derail the thread, getting back on topic, many Myford owners find the Press Parts PP632 oil gun works very well.

Press parts also have a US office which is where I ordered mine from - Press Parts PP632 oil gun

Clive

Ugh, I just ordered the myford one which I read is better than the older one?! I guess its too late, but I'll grab that one if the other is insufficient.

Dave, would that still be the case if the switch is not actually turning on the motor (Baldor CEM3546 1hp), but just the VFD (teco l510)? There no condition where I would flick the switch and the lathe would start spinning (I believe this power loss state is a feature to control in the VFD. I realize the current would still flow through the switch, but the turn on of the motor would be controlled with the VFD controls. I have set it to ramp up to speed over 6 seconds, so turn on current should be a bit less than just slamming it to 100%. Thoughts?