On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:20:49 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
wrote:

William Noble wrote:
for what it's worth, the manual for my logan PL92 lathe says that the clutch
slips at 900 pounds force

YOWEE! Are you sure? There's a unit missing there, but even if it's
900 INCH-pounds, that's a LOT of torque (75 ft-lbs)!

Or maybe that's the axial force on the clutch plate. In which case it
really doesn't say anything about the torque.

Bob

Actually, it's 900 pounds of THRUST on the carriage.


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