Another hobby development

[Gilberdyke John]

In my father's schooldays (early 1910s) and being a rural school where farmers children worked before schooltime, usually feeding livestock, one of the classmates was often on the receiving end of a stick. His clothes were well covered with ground meal so clouds of dust were raised around him and close neighbours coughed & spluttered until the cloud settled.

A week later and still struggling to do simple things like putting a shirt on because the movements required induce pain in my shoulder. Not where the x-ray or bruising suggests the trauma is located. However paracetamol every 6 hours is containing things if I behave myself and don't exert myself. Couldn't resist looking at the semi-stripped motor in the workshop so persuaded Mrs J to take me to George Lodges with the old bearing I had taken off prior to my fall. The lad behind the counter measured it and said it's a 6204 2Z stock item do you want a pair? Price £71.51 plus vat then said discount 92% so I bought two and came away £13.73 lighter. Thank goodness for discounts.
It'll probably be a few more days before I'm up to fitting the bearings and the end caps go back on the motor.
While I was there I noted they stock a wide range of pulleys and belts so if I have future requirements there's a local stockists.

Feeling somewhat easier in the shoulder today I wandered into the workshop and put the electric motor back together. I realized I should have photographed the wiring in the terminal box but with the aid of my multimeter I sussed out which terminals served the capacitor, centrifugal switch and running windings. On connecting to a supply the motor started and ran smoothly & quietly with its new bearings. it's a heavy old lump so I'll wait until my grandson is here again to fit it back onto the machine.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Feeling somewhat easier in the shoulder today I wandered into the workshop and put the electric motor back together. I realized I should have photographed the wiring in the terminal box but with the aid of my multimeter I sussed out which terminals served the capacitor, centrifugal switch and running windings. On connecting to a supply the motor started and ran smoothly & quietly with its new bearings. it's a heavy old lump so I'll wait until my grandson is here again to fit it back onto the machine.

Grandson Daniel came this morning and kindly fitted the now refurbished electric motor to the lathe. Applying power to it I was able to demonstrate the various speeds and drives to him. The gearbox is a bit noisy so that's the next job once we've borrowed some machine movers skates and located it where it's going to live in the workshop.

 

[Penninetrader]

Grandson Daniel came this morning and kindly fitted the now refurbished electric motor to the lathe. Applying power to it I was able to demonstrate the various speeds and drives to him. The gearbox is a bit noisy so that's the next job once we've borrowed some machine movers skates and located it where it's going to live in the workshop.

Might just be a gear oil change, hopefully. Some things you just have to live with on old tackle.