smallfly
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2009
- Location
- alder montana
GENTLEMEN---i have used this lathe as a hobby machine for approx. 6 years. the servo- shift feature did not work when i purchased the lathe, which, is no surprise to anyone here, but it sure as hell was to me. beware of ''used''machine ''sales people.''trust but verify''.
i made a lot of phone calls to leblond and studied a lot of elec. diagrams and asked a lot of questions of quite a few people. and did a lot of work before i was able to get everything working properly,and for the last 6 years the ''servo-shift has ,and does, function as it was designed to do.it works well! i believe i could, at one point, '' written the ''BOOK'' on the operation of the servo--shift.
6 years later, i have lost my ''FASCINATION'' with all this automatic gear changing, which was designed as a gizmo to sell more lathes and to get parts made faster in a factory setting.
iam going to carefully remove , photograph and box up , all the parts of this ''servo-shift ''add-on''. iam going to change this lathe to'' manual'' gear change, lathe. that's really all i wanted 6-yrs. ago.
to get to the point -the parts work well,all the parts are in one place, they are all for sale either as a complete unit or piece meal.
if you are interested in this or need help with a ''servo-shift'' quirk''. pm me or call me in mt. i will be happy to help if i can. re steve in montana --406-596-7960
i made a lot of phone calls to leblond and studied a lot of elec. diagrams and asked a lot of questions of quite a few people. and did a lot of work before i was able to get everything working properly,and for the last 6 years the ''servo-shift has ,and does, function as it was designed to do.it works well! i believe i could, at one point, '' written the ''BOOK'' on the operation of the servo--shift.
6 years later, i have lost my ''FASCINATION'' with all this automatic gear changing, which was designed as a gizmo to sell more lathes and to get parts made faster in a factory setting.
iam going to carefully remove , photograph and box up , all the parts of this ''servo-shift ''add-on''. iam going to change this lathe to'' manual'' gear change, lathe. that's really all i wanted 6-yrs. ago.
to get to the point -the parts work well,all the parts are in one place, they are all for sale either as a complete unit or piece meal.
if you are interested in this or need help with a ''servo-shift'' quirk''. pm me or call me in mt. i will be happy to help if i can. re steve in montana --406-596-7960
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