16-02-2014, 04:26 PM
Hi,
I've spent a bit of time in the garage today playing with this brush motor and I'm far from happy with it. The new bearings have quietened it down considerably but it's still running too roughly for my liking. Its possible a previous owner has tried to use excessive force in order to remove the stepped double pulley and distorted the shaft causing the rough running? Next session I'll clock the shaft with my DTI just to check it. Everything appears OK and it starts without problem also it reverses as it should but it's not going back on the Lorch unless I can get it to behave.
Out of curiosity I've just been browsing eBay looking at electric motors because a top quality Brook cast iron motor would do justice to this lathe. What a shame it is now that I came across the following;
http://www.motors-direct.co.uk/index.php?_a=category&cat_id=77&gclid=CNLC_sD10LwCFazHtAodjlgAhA
When Brooks were in full production here in Huddersfield "lead" time for a special could easily be six weeks but now it appears even standard motors are being severely delayed no doubt due to being made in India or Poland these days? How sad it is for me to see a notice like this appear from a stockist. So many British manufacturers dumped England as a manufacturing base thinking it would be much cheaper to manufacture abroad because of very cheap labour but now is it coming back to bite them?
I used to work the "Link shift" and occasionally would receive a late panic call from a company wanting a stock motor because of a breakdown; I would visit the warehouse and request a motor to be issued without correct paperwork then I would fill in a manual consignment note allowing the motor to be loaded that night and despatched for the customer to receive next day. The correct paperwork would then be issued and everyone was happy. Progress department staff always had urgent motors for me to despatch leaving me details (motor serial number) during the normal shift hours then when the production lines shut down I would cruise the JIT cells on the fork-truck mopping up these urgent motors; each motor was logged through assembly stages and could easily be tracked on the computer. In 24 years at Brooks I never ever knowingly left a motor on the shop floor which had been completed and was ready for despatch. How times have changed?
Kind regards, Col.
I've spent a bit of time in the garage today playing with this brush motor and I'm far from happy with it. The new bearings have quietened it down considerably but it's still running too roughly for my liking. Its possible a previous owner has tried to use excessive force in order to remove the stepped double pulley and distorted the shaft causing the rough running? Next session I'll clock the shaft with my DTI just to check it. Everything appears OK and it starts without problem also it reverses as it should but it's not going back on the Lorch unless I can get it to behave.
Out of curiosity I've just been browsing eBay looking at electric motors because a top quality Brook cast iron motor would do justice to this lathe. What a shame it is now that I came across the following;
http://www.motors-direct.co.uk/index.php?_a=category&cat_id=77&gclid=CNLC_sD10LwCFazHtAodjlgAhA
When Brooks were in full production here in Huddersfield "lead" time for a special could easily be six weeks but now it appears even standard motors are being severely delayed no doubt due to being made in India or Poland these days? How sad it is for me to see a notice like this appear from a stockist. So many British manufacturers dumped England as a manufacturing base thinking it would be much cheaper to manufacture abroad because of very cheap labour but now is it coming back to bite them?
I used to work the "Link shift" and occasionally would receive a late panic call from a company wanting a stock motor because of a breakdown; I would visit the warehouse and request a motor to be issued without correct paperwork then I would fill in a manual consignment note allowing the motor to be loaded that night and despatched for the customer to receive next day. The correct paperwork would then be issued and everyone was happy. Progress department staff always had urgent motors for me to despatch leaving me details (motor serial number) during the normal shift hours then when the production lines shut down I would cruise the JIT cells on the fork-truck mopping up these urgent motors; each motor was logged through assembly stages and could easily be tracked on the computer. In 24 years at Brooks I never ever knowingly left a motor on the shop floor which had been completed and was ready for despatch. How times have changed?
Kind regards, Col.
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