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Got a lesson from Crankshaft on wiring up the motor on Wednesday Been down in Kent since Friday but have been distracted, till this evening, fixing other stuff and keeping my son busy. Going to be here for three more evenings and hope to get some more done Checked tge serial number; 84860...

Ahhh...sorry took me long enough to realise what was being said and now of course it's obvious! And of course I can now se how I could run a Delrin 127 gear with a steel outer idler and a Delrin inner going to the top shaft. Chain lube is a good shout, I'm well used to applying it. Didn't get...

I'm getting myself in a muddle here. My current set up goes 50 Tooth top, 50 Tooth (fibre) on the idler and 100 on the Norton gearbox which from what I understood is standard for a Imperial thread cutting To go metric I should replace the 100T with a 127T, then have either 40T or 60T (or 63T...

So in your second video there was another wheel behind the one on the intermediate shaft engaging with the top shaft? I can see why the intermediate shaft wheel on my machine is fibre now. For the 127 tooth wheel Delrin is the most readily available option, but you aren't meant to run Delrin...

Now, something I could do with some help in understanding relates to the change wheels for thread cutting. I've labled up this pic with what I beleive are the 'shafts' and what wheels they are currently fitted with on my machine: If I'm correct this is the standard configuration for a...

With any luck tomorrow I will get a tune out of my new motor on the bench

3 Magnetic Linear encoders with cables and connectors plus 2m of magnetic scale strip ordered from Ali-express. I've also picked up 20m of 2.5mm2 5 core SY Armoured Cable for the 3Ph power and 100m of 8 core alarm cable from TLC for comms work

Good point!

Many conversations currently on going; current thinking is to buy some magnetic linear encoders (because they are easy to customise and are compact) from Ali-Express, then build my own (with a lot of guidance) DRO using an old Amazon Fire Tablet I have and a freeware package from...

Indeed, that is what I realised when I was looking back and forth through the manual

Meanwhile, this has arrived: I've not got a clue how to use or configure it, but will be interesting to find out!

Only snag is I believe that my small wheel is fibre, so I would need to change it for a metal one

The wheel on it currently is a 100 tooth and appears to have the part number L5/51: So my search for a bargain 127 begins...

In between the low and high of plonkerdom I did find the time last weekend to go take a look in two of my auxiliary storage devices for missing Lathe parts, sadly the search yielded nothing. I couldn't access storage device 3 as I had stacked Land Rover number 3 chassis and rather a lot of...

Doh! Well, call me Rodney... L1 or L and L2 or N are the input...ie Live and Neutral, U, V and W are the 3 output phases Crankshaft spotted it within seconds.... I am a plonker...

Urgh...why is it some things are never quite what they seem.... My supposed Single to 3Phase Siemens Inverter VFD from a 'specialist' on ebay isn't, the model number on the label on it says it is, but when you pop the covers off the front to wire it up you find: Popping the fan off at the...

The other option of course is to just use the box as a spacer and through bolt. I found when I took the old motor off it was held in place with plain old coach bolts! In further developments I have had an ebay offer accepted on a development board with touch screen display as recommened by...

@Sideways Can you recall what size box you used to space your motor out off the mounting brackets? I have the day off and was going to go pop out for some UC to make the extended brackets for the feet and will try to pick some box to make up some spacers too.

Decided to order a ready made pendant controller for the VFD from 'Thegubbs' (Gavin) on ebay after discussing my set up with him, he's included with it his notes on hooking one up to a Siemens Micromaster 420 Inverter VFD as he's done a few. That will get me running quickest and llow me a more...

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