RickG
Established Member
Hi all,
I'm new to turning and the lathe I've got an Axminster M950. When I got it, it was in a bad way with dust and general crud all over. I've stripped it all down, cleaned it and sorted a few issues and it's now working quite well.
Well, that's to say it WAS working well, until the motor stopped starting. It took to humming at me whenever I hit the Start button. I took the motor to a local workshop where they have changed the capacitor and cleaned the centrifugal switch in the motor. It now seems OK again.
Please can you folks advise me on this? Should the motor now be OK, or should I think about knocking together a ventilation duct on the air-intake of the motor and get it to suck the cleaner air from high-level in the workshop?
Has anyone else had this happen?
Many thanks Richard
I'm new to turning and the lathe I've got an Axminster M950. When I got it, it was in a bad way with dust and general crud all over. I've stripped it all down, cleaned it and sorted a few issues and it's now working quite well.
Well, that's to say it WAS working well, until the motor stopped starting. It took to humming at me whenever I hit the Start button. I took the motor to a local workshop where they have changed the capacitor and cleaned the centrifugal switch in the motor. It now seems OK again.
Please can you folks advise me on this? Should the motor now be OK, or should I think about knocking together a ventilation duct on the air-intake of the motor and get it to suck the cleaner air from high-level in the workshop?
Has anyone else had this happen?
Many thanks Richard