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Can you turn all the motors by hand? Are any stuck? The click from the start contactor suggests that you are ok to run But humming and overloads/breakers tripping suggests mechanical issues Are you sure you have a ll 3 phases present and correct because a missing phase will hum and trip the...

I can make an adapter but its a bit small for a serious chuck…what would you be wanting to turn?

If you can access your pipe from the PRV outside just put a plastic carrier bag over the pipe to catch any discharge you will soon see if the PRV is venting

If the system is working turn it on from cold and feel which valve gets hot first

as someone who never got the hang of whilstling...what is she doing with her fingers?

Yes but the chuck only has a right hand thread…i do know my threads and chucks I’ve been making specials for 25 years now

the record sc4 has an insert for m30 x3.5 i do make inserts for the record range and could make you a m25x2.5 left hand if it is lh but it will want to unscrew without grub screws to hold it Ian

I was doing a small job with osmo polyx oil and after only an hour a shop wipe was warm and smoking that was scrunched up with oil on. Luckily i was in the room working and i always dispose of rags and wipes in a bin full of water after work…but i was surprised at the speed of this reaction

You should be still able to use that by putting the lever back on and pushing it in whilst turning….you have just broken the bolt that holds the spring on to push the lever on.. Is it a female thread or male …if you unscrew it all the way off? Ian

Here’s some pictures of a graduate spindle and the 2 types of patriot chucks to fit the spindle,one directly threaded rh and lh and the excert only rh As you can see the thread and register is only 25mm long and both females are 35mm deep.. And theres only about 2.5 to 3 turns of thread on the...

If you are considering secondhand i have this available

Be far superior in steel and just as easy to drill if you have a bench drill

I dont think aluminium sections will be strong enough and will vibrate in use why not mak eit in steel sections as your picture? Ian

You are going to need a serious piece of kit to cut SS up to 1.5mm

Now gone..donated to a young man

I have a wickes branded pillar drill All works well £20

That certainly looks wrong

Photo?

Well I’ll stand corrected obviously some do go up But all I’ve seen go down in commercial applications If you put a mop on a lathe spindle it will go down The mop on a sorby proedge goes down Most pigtails to take the mop have right hand threads so the mop tightens in use

I must say i've not seen many buffers working going up all i've seen (and theres a lot in sheffield..or were) go downwards as a grinder would