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  1. not contacted them yet, some places are not happy to help when you got a few thousand $ worth of their kit from a scrapyard or they want you to only have it fixed at their authorised dealers for a lot of money

     

    an induction heater I bought for 10 uk pounds, the makers want me to pay them over 500 uk pounds so they can inspect it and test it before they supply me with a spare part costing a few pounds

  2. 18 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

    I hear that Grizzles are even harder to remove than ticks.

    we dont often get problems with them here

    but an event I am trading at in july is in a bad area for ticks and last year several people were known to have contracted lyme disease there

     

  3. have a 4th axis ( rotary table for a cnc mill ) and it has a few screws missing or damaged

    it is made in the US and is a HAAS HRT 310, it is recent and not an antique so can anyone tell me what threads are likely to be used

    the main one I need is about 3/16", measured at 0.186" or 4.7mm on the outside of the male thread and is quite fine.

    another thread of interest is the one for the lifting eye, measures about 7/16" and looks like our whitworth or UNC thread

    it weighs 438 pounds

  4. if on monday you do well you may be making a hot cut too

    Thomas did you know that about 50 years ago both US and UK inches changed?

    and that the US uses 2 different inches

    or that there used to be many different inches and feet from IIRC 11 inches to 17 inches to the foot, wales and england and germany had many systems and then you get to fingers, palms, shaftments and ells

  5. ok, all I needed was 30.5 by 34 and you will want the height of it

    the size of your hardy holes is something to check so you know if tools will fit

    tap lightly all over the top to see if the sound changes, these may be areas of delamination, the area where the top has broken away is where you dont want to be using it or that can spread

  6. if you are writing in English then Vice is the correct spelling

    if you are writing in American then it is vise

    the English language comes from England ( the clue to this is in the name )

    it was not invented in America, America copied it miss spelling many things and changing it

  7. the fire in my forges is roughly conical, it is controlled by depth of fuel and airflow, airflow is controlled by a ball valve.

    turning the air down to no more than is needed saves fuel, come and visit for a chat when you can.

    have just got back tonight from a weekend of demoing at stratford on avon and need a little rest now and then to unpack and to get ready for the next event

    I got a message from someone here, thank you to that person

  8. the frequency determins how many of the motor poles  pass per second, change the frequency and you change the speed, keep the frequency the same and lower the voltage and the motor will try to run at the same speed but with much less power so can stall or overheat.

    here 2 or 4 pole motors are most common but you also can get others meaning the most common motor speeds are about 2850 and 1425 rpm, it the us 2 and 4 pole motors will run faster so your common speeds will probably be more like 3300 and 1750 at a guess.

    with DC shunt motors you vary voltage to vary speed

    run a motor expecting 60 hz on 50 hz as long as voltage is correct motor will run a bit slower.

    the magnetic field in the motor rotates at a speed determined by the frequency and that frequency is not determined by the load, if the motor cannot turn that fast due to the load on it it will get hot

  9. altering the frequency of the ac is the best way, feeding a 240 volt 50 hz ac motor with 110v  will stall it under even slight load.

    most motors I work on are 415 volt and I can vary the frequency from 25 hz to 300 on some if the motor can take it

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