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I have an old Fobco pillar drill which I like just about everything about, bar the fact it has a standard bolted table. I'd like to convert it to a geared table and I'm not sure how to best go about it. Does anyone know where I could order such a drill table, and the geared track?

Well I got it running okay with a nice 1HP VFD. My current mission is to work out optimal ramp up times for the drill. They're set at 10s by the VFD and I'm not sure how much faster I can get this without causing any issues. It's a bit slow for a pillar drill really no?

Roy from peterchild.co.uk offered me a pair of 32" chrome bars at a good price, for the record...

Myfordman - Cheers that's useful info, the collar nut came with the drill so that's a good pointer. Question - Am I okay using my standard Charnwood MT2 chuck fro drilling, I can't see why not but thought it best I check. Obviously my choice of shanks/cutters will be different. Wizard - it's...

Yyes it does have the threaded spindle nose, like this: I'm a happy camper on that note I think

I have a Fobco Universal MT2 pillar drill and would like to perform light milling with this machine. I have a compound vice and a 16mm Charnwood lathe chuck, and I know that I'll need a new MT shank suitably hollowed for milling, but I'm not sure what other bits to look at for the cutter. Indeed...

I already have the poles, that's why I'm using them. Cheers for nomenclature chipmunk, 'seems like £50 should be enough to cover the job should I ditch the scaffold idea.

Thanks Brains!

I know yeah, I'll wire the motor direct to the VFD

Thanks so much for your work on this mate, I would have probably missed that. Anyway I've bought a 230V phase inverter, with speed control and what not. It's small enough to mount on the drill itself so it shouldn't be a problem just removing the relay and switch and wiring direct into the...

I found the manual in question, thanks to your helpful prompt beech, cheers! It has switch configuartions per my model 10E: http://www.eecontrols.com/documents/Pages71-80.pdf

I reckon a bag of fibre reinforcement is the best chance at rigidity here. Will the cement mixture dry/cure alright like this? The bars are indeed a perfect fit seventy something mil. And I'll polish the pipes to adequate smoothness.

I'm going to run the risk of using scaffold bars as the bed bars for my recently aquired Record Coronet 1, and wondered if anyone has done this before. I'm going to fill them with something, someone has recommended using paving sand, and I'm wondering if fibre reinforced concrete might be better...

The photo of the junction is in the first page of this topic mate, don't wanna double post: topic81358.html Can you help me work out what is what? 1L1, 3L2 and 5L3 are the input leads (all red). There are 3 more input, 2 of 'em again red and cut shorter - switch leads - and then earth.

Right now, I'd like to know how my machine is wired, so that I can buy the inverter to most suit the current setup (i.e. an invertor which is 230 > 230 or 415? Many of the units I'm looking appear to put out 230 not 415. I have a dual voltage motor remember), and leave the easiest job for the...

It ain't for sale yet... Thanks for the advice though with the switch n that (hammer) I don't really wanna start pulling that 10 wire junction apart, there's no contacts connecting to the motor without unmounting it too and I just can't be bothered, I got ceilings to paint.

The motor is actual just half a HP, seems I confused the phase rating for hp

|I'm a bit confused about which invertor to go for, do I want one that outputs 230V? There are a lot on ebay around this mark that are interesting, most of them put out ~230V http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... TQ:GB:1123 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PERFECT-3HP-2 ... 20e76c427b

Right here's what the motor has written on it: RPM - 1425 V - 380 -415 / 220/40 50Hz PH3 IP22 Enclosure Can anyone recommend what single phase motor specs would best suit a replacement for this? Or a good place to look for a cheap inverter? £100 is just too much for me, I only want to shell...

Thanks for the help. The motor is indeed dual rated as single and three phase.