In a fit of desperation, he clutched his Jet-Mini.

STOP THE NG! I forgot the mandatory disclaimer. Please ignore my tip, do _NOT clutch your Mini-Jet, no matter how much you love it. At least not until my legal dept. ok's offering my tip for use at your own risk. Whew! That was close.

'Turn to Safety', Arch

Fortiter,

Arch

Don't you know that very few of the NG folks appreciate the use of French or even care to take the time to understand them! For me, I have a full-blown boycott going in my house - no Brie, no Champaign and no using French type words! Ha!

Ray

Arch,

A Scot would just turn the switch on and off real fast, keeping the rpms from building up and saving electricity.

I'm married to a McAmis. I have witnessed frugality in action.

Clay Foster, descendent of eccentric English

After a dull thud, a yawn was heard throughout rcwland and I wonder why. :)

I'm not sure if my tip for the Jet-Mini is well known or is just a poorly thought out and unnecessary approach to a problem that is often discussed here; ie. slowing and varying the speed. Maybe it was my poor attempt at humor or my disclaimer or even possibly Ray's inexplicable response. Maybe you ladies & gentlemen didn't wish to embarrass the crotchety ole coot. :)

Whatever. _Somebody please respond. For sure, there's no scarcity of Mini-Jet owners or a lack of interest in a non- problem; slowing or varying the Mini-Jet's spindle speed.

Turn to Safety, Arch

Fortiter,

Arch,

I have a Delta Midi, not a Jet but the two are nearly identical. I read your suggestion for slowing the lathe and have the Dell Stubs video where he demonstrates the idea at great length. I'm sure it works but I'm not sure I would try it. Seems like it would heat up the belt and wear it out prematurely. And the belt is a mess to change, you have to pull the shaft out. So I guess we need to balance the benefits against the costs. But I do like your thinking.

Harry

I was certainly interested. And kicked myself for never having thought of it, as I've seen the video several times.

Thanks.

Owen Davies

It gives me to wonder. I have a Delta 46-700 that does everything I want a lathe to do but it has that horrible Reeves drives that shakes and rattles no matter how much I try to fix it. I keep thinking of upgrading, but as a pure hobbyist, it's hard to justify. Maybe I should take off the Reeves drive and do a Stubbs fix. I could always undo it if it didn't work.

Anybody ever actually try Stubbs idea??

Earl

Hi Clay,

"....eccentric English." Redundancy wastes bandwidth. ;) Anyway, I'm glad that you married above yourself. I did too and we both hope that at least a little bit rubbed off.

Turn to Safety, Arch

Fortiter,

Have you got any info on that Stubbs idea? I have that same lathe and would love another solution.