DoN. Nichols wrote:

The use of treadmill motors is fairly common. There used to be
a treadmill motor and controller offered by a surplus house, and one
common modification was to eliminate the safety feature (for a
treadmill) of requiring the speed pot to be turned down to zero before
it would start. Obviously a pain with a lathe. :-)

I am supposed to start up my mill from zero.

Hmm ... I was in the shop this afternoon -- and my breath was
not condensing. I had an electric heater by my feet running to keep
the feet a bit warm at least -- and presumably the somewhat warmed
air did come up past my face, but I did not notice that. :-)

Or you could be a lizard. Have you saved up to 15% recently on car
insurance? If you do not have the same Geico TV commercials this joke is
dead...

But the waylube was noticeably stiff in the surface grinder
table. I was working to thin down some open-end wrenches so they
would fit the tap chucks on a couple of TapMatic tapping heads. I
now finally have a full set of wrenches for the two sizes. (Of
course, they should have come with the heads -- if I had bought them
new. -- But those would be cheap stamped steel wrenches anyway.
These were forged steel ones which simply had too thick a head to fit
in to the milled flats.

Somebody posted a recommendation here for the Craftex B2227L lathe with a
link to a discussion forum thread. The first 6 pages fo the thread (I went
no further) dealt with what viscosity the oil in the headstock should be.
Apparently when started up in the cold workshop the lathe was slow. It got
better with oil change!

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Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC