Must be the day for buying broken lathes - I just saw Jussi's post.
I bought a little shopcraft lathe for $15. Worked fine at first. After about 10 minutes it stopped working. After taking it apart, I discovered it still works, but only at full speed. Click the switch down below 5 and it stops.
The motor looks like a drill motor and the speed control is a small box with a gear-driven rotary switch. One wire into and out of the switch.
Anyone know if this speed control is just a variable resistor or something more complicated?
Here are a couple of pictures of the lathe from off the web:
I bought a little shopcraft lathe for $15. Worked fine at first. After about 10 minutes it stopped working. After taking it apart, I discovered it still works, but only at full speed. Click the switch down below 5 and it stops.
The motor looks like a drill motor and the speed control is a small box with a gear-driven rotary switch. One wire into and out of the switch.
Anyone know if this speed control is just a variable resistor or something more complicated?
Here are a couple of pictures of the lathe from off the web:
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