Home Made Lathe, Safe?

Every now and then I see something, and just don't have words to describe.

The bolts coming out the chuck look like a medieval torture device.

I don't mean to be unkind, but this just looks flat out dangerous.

**LINK**

At the current bid of £10 someone would probably get a bargain

... as long as they render it down to a collection of components !!

MichaelG.

Words fail me!

Jim

Looks fine to me

It's a box chuck, albeit larger than normal. Box chucks are standard accessories for clockmakers and instrument lathes.

Andrew

I should think it would be OK to free hob a few gear on

Interesting use of a variable speed on a single phase induction motor too.

Seller has set a reserve "to cover the cost of components" which suggests that - a. buying it as a source of parts won't be an economic proposition, and b. he won't find a buyer.

There's probably a trigger off a mains drill somewhere

I like the spindle flywheel counterweight

At least it,s Made in England. Can,t be that bad.

Vibration free at 2950 rpm, currently 2 bids maybe sailors looking for a boat anchor?

Tony

Only thing that puts me off is collection from Kilmarnock, can’t get any fuel to get there!

Not sure that's an induction motor as its rated at 2950 rpm. More likely to be a universal brushed motor and the speed controller is probably one of these

Edited By JasonB on 03/10/2021 13:07:25

They don't use universal motors on grinders because of the risk of overspeed and I can imagine a cheap grinder using an induction motor quoting its speed as 2950, synchronous speed being 3000 on 50hz.

John, Syncronous speed 3000rpm 50hz, slip and losses =2850rpm(or so) for a 2pole motor.on load.Noel.

John, Noel - the motor is clearly marked 60Hz 240V, and if you look at the closeup of the speed controller, inside the red box it looks like the one I linked to.

But I must confess I haven't tried my controller ( used for an old electric drill) on an induction motor. I wouldn't expect it to work.

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Presumably the link that Jason removed [see Code of Conduct]

MichaelG.

Ah, only looked at the photos on my phone, didn't see the motor plate. But a 240V 60Hz motor in the UK? Where did that come from? I just assumed that the 2950rpm was a bit of typical specmanship. I can imagine that the horrible induction motors used in cheap grinders would "speed control" down to 0 rpm run off one of those controllers, and up to max, just not very linear!!

Edited By John Haine on 03/10/2021 13:47:49

We had a Black museum when I was at work of some of the things people did to power tool this should have been in that