Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýFor a consumer lathe, plastic is probably fine.? I never changed the gears in mine and didn't have a problem.Metal is a lot nosier, not good for consumers putting these in a spare bedroom with the spouse watching TV in the other room. My new lathe has all metal gears and a 3 phase motor with a dedicated VFD.? Motor quiet, gears are a bit noisy but not bad. My old mill was belt drive and pretty quiet.? An old Taiwan "tabletop" I bought in the late 1990s.? The new mill is a gear head with a 2kw 3 phase motor and VFD.? Motor is pretty much silent, but the gears are anything but. While I'm on motors, I brought our horizontal bandsaw from California as it cuts dead true.? I left the 120V motor and stand behind and built a new stand for it here.? A friend here gave me an OLD Soviet 3 phase motor that had been rigged up with capacitors to run on single phase and it had a grinding wheel on it.? Looks funky but runs fine.? I got the grinding wheel off with penetrating oil, tossed the capacitors, machined a pulley hub to fit the motor and now I have a nice band saw.? Have to finish hooking up the auto shutoff and hydraulic lowering system but for now it works with a manual power switch. Handy that I have 3 phase power in the shop sort of by accident, they brought in 3 phase to power our sauna as single phase power draw here is limited to 25 amps for an entire house. I said HEY, put a circuit in the shop!? They left the wire hanging out of the wall and I added a sub panel to that and it powers the mill and band saw. Bandsaw right after we got it working again below  On 01-Feb-25 16:12, davesmith1800
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Jerry Durand