Grandquads
Plastic
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- Dec 31, 2019
Newbie on this forum please excuse me for that!! I have a 1956 10ee that I’ve been running on a homemade rotary phase converter (220) for about 10 yrs now with very very little issues until I had a friend helping me and I didn’t tell him to make sure power was off to lathe when not in use. The supply power was on steady for about a week and now my lathe will start but no power or speed past about 50 rpm in any setting (open belt) it’s jumpy and growling when I open the end door (tube area) I have the 2 c16j tubes and only one is lighting up ( the right or closest to rear) and flickering when both were smooth before. I swapped tubes from left to right and still same side lights and flickers. I have cleaned all contacts ( had a spider get smashed in one before causing issue) still no luck the lathe even at the low spindle speed it has no power I can lay a hammer handle against the smooth part of chuck with light pressure and stop it I’ve checked voltage and ohmed most wires from relays and contacts to end point ( mouse chewed wires before) and all seems ok
This is about as far as my troubleshooting can take me with what I know about this style of lathe
I do NOT wish to convert it as I feel this is something simple I’m ignorant about and possibly caused by line voltage on too long. Thanks in advance for any advice and when I figure out how to send pics bids I will
This is about as far as my troubleshooting can take me with what I know about this style of lathe
I do NOT wish to convert it as I feel this is something simple I’m ignorant about and possibly caused by line voltage on too long. Thanks in advance for any advice and when I figure out how to send pics bids I will