Has anyone yet seen or tried the new Jet variable speed mini lathe? I've seen several ads for it on the internet, but no pictures and no details, other than that the price is about the same as the old non-VS model.
Mike
Here's the link:
Mike
You were right -- the link doesn't work, at least for me. I'm a user of the Opera browser and am about to start an organization to boycott any site which requires you to use Explorer or Netscape (I have current levels of both). But, I tried it with NS and it told me I had to update that browser too. I wonder how much lost business there is out there because of this type of c**p.
Bill
Are you *sure* that line wrap didn't get you here Bill? I just copied and pasted the second line (-L1014VS.pdf)onto the end of the erroneous URL and all went well. By the way.........If you can't get to a site by using Opera as your browser then you are automatically boycotting that site ..........Chuckle.
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M.J. Orr
This variable speed model is available thru Amazon for $299 with free shipping. Anyone know anyone that has used one? It appears to be the regular JML-1014 with a circuit board controlling the speed in the new on/off box.
Bob Darrah West Linn, Oregon
More than that. Its got a different motor (DC) and pulleys, too.
Peter Teubel Milford, MA
You are right in both cases.
Bill
The info on the Amazon site for the Jet VS lathe lists minimum speed as 500 rpm which in my opinion is a little fast to start turning anything that is not pre-balanced. As I recall this was one of the major objections to the early NOVA DVRs. Is a slower minimum speed for electronic VS drives a big problem to accomplish or is it just more expensive?
I have a vs motor on my Vicmarc VL 100. Got the motor and controller from a machinery surplus center. And I can turn it down to 0 rpm if I want. Have no clue of my top end speed, but its faster than I need that's for sure. Even on the smallest pulley (which I leave it on for the most torque) it still goes way faster than I need it to if I crank it up. I guess my point is here, that technically, if they wanted to, they could make it a 0 - 3,900 rpm system if they wanted to instead of 500 being the minimum.
That 500 RPM figure may just be bad data copied from the specs of the older mini lathe. The lathe *ought* to run considerably slower than that, since it has a DC motor and it looks to have approximately the same pulley sizes as the old AC-motor version.
Dave
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