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+1 for the Logitech C270 which are regularly available on Ebay and are about half the price of the C920.

Derek - thanks -- but naughty. You confused the elderly!!

Derek I'm interested in your statement about 'double of air' - if you do pi x r^2 and percentage the increase in diameter, that is significantly below 'double'. I remember doing something about laminar flow at university 60 years ago, but is that why you can say 'double'? Rob

Another very viable option is to buy a suitable AF tap and run it through the threads. AF is the same pitch and diameter as Whit with a slight thread angle change. But then that does assume you can get USA AF bolts of course. As a totally "Off Topic" bit of possibly internet bit of...

@Jackbequick - in general few properties in the UK have 3 phase available and the cost and nuisance of installing it outweighs the convenience. Any investment needs to show a return and that is highly unlikely to add anything to the value of my property. Interestingly the engineering business...

Yes - there are bits of information missing in the original post specifically the motor powers and the intention to run the P/T on a suitably rated electronic inverter - now two inverters! On the otherhand many of the people here know the type of motors used in the typical equipment mentioned...

At the moment finding other jobs to do having finally got the motor apart - that is putting off the moment of commitment of delving into the motor windings to find two star points and convert them both to delta so that as Myfordman indicates I can work out which set is the more powerful when...

This is not much help to the OP I admit but I picked up an old Cooksley P/T recently and this uses seperate motors for the cutter head and thicknesser rollers. Ok the headache is that these are 3 ph 440vac motors but there are inverters available for 240vac single phase to 440vac 3 phase...

Hi GF Should I soften any existing varnish with a hot air gun when starting off .? And re-varnish afterwards? - I'm going to use long thin cable ties to clamp the coils afterwards. My thinking was once the motor was re-assembled to check the current consumption on both sets of coils and go...

I have an interesting challenge and would appreciate anything anyone can add. I recently bought an elderly (late 1960's possibly) Cooksley P/T. The main motor is no problem as it is just a change of jumpers star to delta. The problem i've found (once I got it home!) is that it uses a...

There's always some smart a***e who stumbles upon a thread as this some time later and feels it is necessary to put his pennyworth in!! I am such, and until about a fortnight ago I would have gone with the statement from Fitz on "six ends in the junction box" and not said anything. But ...

[/b] I'm up for offers but postage is going to bit costly!! :lol: :lol: Rob

Can you expand on that a bit please. I've turned small burrs into bowls and never had any problems and would have thought that there's little likeihood of significant moisture in this big one now. I do have one turned flat bowl in wych elm that has moved a bit but accept that I may not have...

At over 1 metre by 0.7 and 0.45 high, and weighing over 60kgs it's not something to be just :lol: 'put somewhere'. :lol: I hadn't realised that all veneer comes in from abroad now - ther's no veneer manufacturers in the UK now as that was the market I thought it could go into.

Poking around in a workshop sale recently I found a large elm burr in perfect condition - possible 50+ kg and over a metre long. So 'huge' might be a better classification. I now have it home and am realising that "eyes are bigger than stomach" - and how do I handle it? Literally with two...

Nev - maybe you might have guessed that my request for a manual was just a thrown in line, hence my comment on that being a bonus. I really didn't expect to get that. Now that I have a type number I may be able to get the motor power from Mr Google too . You've been a big help - thanks...

Nev - that is a bonus I didn't expect - so many thanks. That's the machine OK. It doesn't give me the motor power but all the lubrication points and so on, plus how to set up the blades is invaluable. There's a bit of rust on the cutterblock so it's been well sprayed with WD40 and to be...

I've just bought one of these - possibly a 1970's machine. I haven't worked out yet if the bolts are imperial or metric, but interestiungly the drive belt/chain cover is fibreglass. I don't know if this helps with the identification - no type number is available - it has a 3 blade head. It's...

Actually it was your gravitational problem I'm going to challenge - what you are failing to take into account is that the smaller the item is, the less air resistance it has and correspondingly the faster it falls :roll: :roll: And as far as my brother is concerne, 'being Petered' on the...

Oops - that is just a bit too obvious isn't it :oops: :oops: So many thanks, and having slackened off the appropriate allen screws and discovered that the fence is slotted for this very purpose, I'm now lookng forward to giving my 30 years professional woodworker brother a hard time for...