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The Bowler Hatted Turner:
Hi all,
        we had a short discussion last night at the club about the lack of power to the 2 Axminster lathes. I think one is a AWSL and the other AWVSL they are like the old 330 but newer. The problem we have is they do not have enough guts for how  we use them on club nights. My question is has anyone fitted a bigger motor to either of these machines and if it is possible to do where do we stand on insurance if someone has an accident on an altered machine? We may have to bite the bullet and buy something else but storage is our problem, they fit very neatly into our cubby hole whereas a bigger lathes will not.
All advice welcome.
Regards
John BHT

Bryan Milham:
John,

No, I've never uprated a lathe motor but many people do.

Just look at the number of 3 phase inverter controlled adaptors available for the likes of Graduates etc., but finding a small enough/strong enough motor might. I think the likes of The Brush Motor Co. are long gone, nowadays it's all standard fit mass produced motors. So you might be looking at a new mounting arrangement to hold a larger motor.

As long as it's done properly by a qualified person (look up Motor Rewinders in the Yellow Pages) and PAT Tested don't think it will be much of an insurance problem.

john taylor:
I did have a look at getting a bigger motor for my AWVSL but I couldnt find one to fit instead I upgraded to what is now called the AT1416VS.

john

Terry Miller:
Look at the motor nameplate if it has one and take the following details to any electrical motor rewinders.
1. Frame size.
2. horsepower or kilowatts.
3. rpm.
The rewinders will be able to tell from the frame size whether a larger motor is available as a direct replacement.
If the motor has no nameplate and if you can uncouple it from the lathe then an engineer will be able to identify it with a few measurements!!!
Insurance should not be a problem.

woodndesign:

Would it do any good to ask Axminster !!! most Lathes like these come out of China on Mass, to the spec of different suppliers ... Ax, Sip, Draper, who have you ..

Just a thought ...

David

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