12-04-2013, 11:03 AM
Hi,
Many thanks Colin for your encouragement and optimism. We've just returned from Batley; whilst driving over "the top" at Grange Moor and Hopton there is still 3 feet deep snow at the roadside and thick fog.
I've just put a new 5A fuse into the Clarke but it remains dead so after dinner I'll investigate further.
The Clarke is a capable small lathe but apart from it's limited capacity I can say I dislike the variable speed; each time I switch on at the toggle switch I then need to set the speed control; at times when the speed control is set to zero the mandrel still rotates also after running the lathe for a while it will slow down during a cut then speed up again without me touching the controls.
If I hadn't had 50 years playing with lathes then perhaps the Clarke would have been delightful; it's certainly better than no lathe but I feel another Colchester Triumph coming on?
I dream of opening the garage doors to let the sunshine flood in Colin and for a couple of days a year my dream comes true but then brings other problems; neighbours wander in wanting jobs doing and then every salesperson for miles around zero's in usually just when I'm doing something important and don't want interrupting; am I anti-social?
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks Colin for your encouragement and optimism. We've just returned from Batley; whilst driving over "the top" at Grange Moor and Hopton there is still 3 feet deep snow at the roadside and thick fog.
I've just put a new 5A fuse into the Clarke but it remains dead so after dinner I'll investigate further.
The Clarke is a capable small lathe but apart from it's limited capacity I can say I dislike the variable speed; each time I switch on at the toggle switch I then need to set the speed control; at times when the speed control is set to zero the mandrel still rotates also after running the lathe for a while it will slow down during a cut then speed up again without me touching the controls.
If I hadn't had 50 years playing with lathes then perhaps the Clarke would have been delightful; it's certainly better than no lathe but I feel another Colchester Triumph coming on?
I dream of opening the garage doors to let the sunshine flood in Colin and for a couple of days a year my dream comes true but then brings other problems; neighbours wander in wanting jobs doing and then every salesperson for miles around zero's in usually just when I'm doing something important and don't want interrupting; am I anti-social?
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
