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| dawesy:
just read this thread from start to here. hats off to you sir, i wouldnt have known where to start. its good to see someone not giving up but persevering and overcoming the hurdles that come up. top work :) |
| awemawson:
Thanks Stuart, no major voltages involved, mild stuff really just horrendous data consequences if I'd fluffed it :bugeye: Dawesy, I appreciate your kind words but I reckon you deserve a medal if you've just read it all :clap: The battery float charge mod has had 24 hours of 'uptime' now and everything seems to be stable, so I've battened down a few hatches and will leave it a week or so before measuring again. Andrew |
| vtsteam:
Last entries about the battery backup -- so Andrew, what have you been making in the completed lathe? :thumbup: :coffee: |
| awemawson:
In all honesty Steve not a lot. I made up a batch of shouldered heavy duty washers, but even that was really playing. As you well know it was the journey rather than the destination that motivated me. I still have to turn up a replacement for the ptfe sealing bush that feeds coolant to the powered tools, and one of the bearings in the motor for the powered tooling needs changing when I get time as it is rather noisy, but neither of these thing stop the machine, nor are they currently priorities. Farming type things have come to the fore with the season changing. |
| vtsteam:
Andrew, knowing you, I think it's probably time to sell that smoothly functioning masterpiece of investigative restoration, and get a REAL piece of junk. That one was really on the small side anyway! Do I recall a video of a lathe here somewhere on the forum turning a ship's crankshaft? :poke: :lol: :lol: |
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