Re: SL motor heats up and..
Hello Tia:
I think you have a bad motor. To trip the house breaker, 15 amp or larger, is a huge current for a motor that should draw 1 amp. I think your motor has shorted windings, will run but
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Carl
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#64848
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Re: SL motor heats up and..
Hi Fran,
Unfortunately that is the main problem with the SL/DB lathe you only have a short working time before it overheats the only way is to replace the motor with either a 24V DC? or a 118-220V
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phill005
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#64846
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SL motor heats up and..
Hi,
These days I am having more time to get used to the Unimat SL I purchased months ago. I have started working on some new stumps for a watchmakers staking set, and After 5 to 10 minutes, the (SL
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Fran
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#64845
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Re: Interesting turning technique
You'd be putting most of the pressure on one side of the quill using it as a lathe, instead of distributing the wear all around the quill. If you do a great deal of work that way it could become a
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Bill in OKC too
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#64844
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Re: Interesting turning technique
I used my SL for many hundreds of horizontal drilling operations without any problems. Never thought twice about it. I had a work holding jig in place of the toolpost and the drill held in a collet on
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Keith S. Angus
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#64843
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Thank you
This first video on a Unitmate mini lathe.
Dave
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davesmith1800
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#64842
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Hi Gang:
How do chips being flung from the cutting tool in front of the chuck end up behind the chuck? Sure a few, but the quill is a slip fit with little room for chips to get in. In fact I often
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Carl
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#64841
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Re: Interesting turning technique
The Unimat drills up and down, debris falls below the spindle.? With use of the quill movement horizontally for turning, debris falls onto the spindle.? I do not see any benefit to this.
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John Hutnick
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#64840
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Re: Interesting turning technique
It's as good a technique as any other. If the headstock is nipped up snug there will be no significant loss of accuracy - and if the finished piece is within tolerance then it's accurate enough. As
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Keith S. Angus
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#64839
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Quill movement is a design feature in Unimat for vertical milling and drilling. But done horizontally is somehow bad?
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Tinkerer22
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#64838
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Re: Interesting turning technique
I am not cutting tapers, that is not what was shown.? If I get any wear inside the headstock, I am screwed.? What is the benefit?? To turn something a little quicker?? Please show me where this
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John Hutnick
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#64837
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Production machines have handles instead of wheels.
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Andrei
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#64836
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Hi Peter:
Of course there is clearance in the quill, and thus more play for the spindle run-out. But the amount is minor.
The possible plus of this arrangement is you could turn the head for a taper
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Carl
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#64835
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Re: Interesting turning technique
More wear occurs on the slides and lead screw, because of much smaller contact area. Those parts are even more prone to debris contamination than the quill.
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Tinkerer22
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#64834
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Re: Interesting turning technique
And somehow this is a new discovery?
It is possibly OK for coarse turning.? However, I think that there would be a tendency to wear on the spindle hole through the head.? Some amount of whatever you
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John Hutnick
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#64833
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Seems the sliding spindle is called the ¡®quill¡¯¡
I wish the U3 had this feature but does it affect accuracy? Does it introduce play in the spindle?
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Peter Brooks
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#64832
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Re: Interesting turning technique
I run mine that way when making clock bushings.
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Quinn Golden
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#64831
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Re: Interesting turning technique
Beats cranking the tiny handle
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Andrei
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#64830
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Re: Interesting turning technique
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 07:40 PM, Tinkerer22 wrote:
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Bruce Rohde
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#64829
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Re: Interesting turning technique
It¡¯s this guy I think -
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Peter Brooks
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#64828
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