Some more lathe progress (some pictures and some without)

I ordered wipers for my lathe tonight. Not too pricey.

Btw, how much did you give for your lathe?

My lathe and mill are both running off a 5hp rotophase. I'm using 20a 125/250v twist locks I bought at Home Depot to connect power to them. I like being able to remove power from a machine when working on it.

Did you get it done today? How is it running?

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

$21 or so.

$500.

remove power

That's a good idea.

Yes. It runs perfectly, exactly how I want.

If the VFD is controlled by external switches (the switch on the lathe), it runs at 60 Hz. I can also change the VFD to work in panel control mode and then it runs at the frequency I set on the display Then I can set it to 10 Hz or whatever, like yesterday, when I was machining the face of the chuck mounting plate.

This VFD that I installed, I had, and it had some minor cosmetic damage (not visible on the photos) , so I could not sell it for a lot of $$ but I had a great use for it.

It is also programmed for soft start and soft stop.