New Nova will be here tonight!
mac davis wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:13:04 -0500, Gerald Ross wrote:
It starts at the second setting. I changed that setting to 450 and the
lower setting to 200, because I found myself changing down for
sanding. So far I have not had the mojo to turn anything at the
highest speed but I have been turning some Christmas tree ornaments at
2500. To me that is really humming. I do not keep the set screw in the
chuck. It stays in a baggie with the allen wrench hanging on a nail. I
only put it in when I know I'm gonna do some reverse sanding. I forgot
to loosen it enough and wound up filing the last thread where I munged
it up.
I decided that 500 was ok, and if I wanted less speed at startup, I could go to
#1 before starting.. The lathes that I'm used to had bottom speeds of 450 &
500..
I changed the last 3 presets to 750, 1,500 & 2,100 for pens and buffing..
The vacuum setup is very strange... a bearing on a tube that just slides into
the handwheel and a hose slides onto that??
I'm sure used to way more exotic setups! lol
mac
Please remove splinters before emailing
It is made for a vacuum cleaner hookup. I took a male quick connect
and ground off the threads enough that it would fit inside, then
epoxied it in place. Very quick hookup to the vacuum pump. I mounted
the switch for the vacuum pump in a metal box with a strong magnet
glued to the back. This sits on the back of the headstock in easy
reach. The vacuum gauge sticks on the front over the digital readout,
again, with a magnet.
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Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
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