Just asking, how is the quality of these lathes?
"Brian Lawson" wrote in message
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Hey Grant,

Hmmmm.. I hate to argue, but I've got three lathes, and two of them
have a jog button. In fact, at the moment, I have a fourth here for
"repair", and it has a jog button also.

Take care.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:53:18 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:

wrote:

I just bought a Birmingham 12x36 gearhead lathe. Installed a 220v
outlet in
the garage. Plugged it in and looked for the power start button. the
manual
said there was one, but I could not find it. The only power button I
could
find is the jog/inch button. That button just jogs the lathe. If I
hold it
down it continues to run but I can't imagine that Birmingham had
intended
the operator to hold the jog button down to turn parts. There is a red
reset button but that just breaks the circuit and shuts things off.
There
is a green power light that looks like a button but it is just a light.
It
can't be pushed. Were the heck is the button that lets the lathe run
continually without being held down???? The manual is very unclear and
amateur....Birmingham needs to hire a technical writer.

Kimball

Maybe they wired in the wrong switch on your machine? The one that should
have been on/off is instead jog/inch? Normally there isn't a jog/inch
switch
on a lathe! - GWE