![]() Liberate a DC drive from a treadmill, and put a muffin-fan on the side of the motor, and you're on! Electric treadmills either have a spring-sheave variable speed (sigh) or a neat little DC motor and a control circuit for variable speed (Pay dirt!). The FIRST way to do it, is to watch Craigslist and local ad-papers for someone with a used treadmill to give away for free. It's not as costly as you probably expect, just hafta know how and where to look. I saw in other threads that the Atlas Lathe Operation is a good book to get. Does anybody know anything about it? Is it a decent chuck? The other piece is still attached to the head. and this Grand New York model 210 chuck with a 1/2 collet. I saw in an old catalog that it originally went for almost the price of the entire lathe. It came with this turret which is very smooth and only missing the two knobs. ![]() If anybody has a countershaft or motor pulley they'd like to part with, please let me know. I'm missing the gear guard and the rear countershaft assembly. Do the back gears do anything besides lock the head in place? Is that bad enough to need replacing? I plan on pulling the whole thing apart anyway. One of the head gears has a broken tooth. ![]() It's in better condition than it looks, but it is pretty dirty. It had a lot of oil on it, but better that than rust. We pulled off all the accessories to make it easier to move. I found some parts diagrams online, but no manuals. I picked this up the other day and was wondering if I could have a little info on it. ![]()
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