Poolewood Euro 2000 Lathe

[Paul39]

Anyone have one?

Anyone used one?

Anyone seen one?

What do you think?

No longer made, there is a used older one coming up for auction in a couple of weeks. I disassembled and helped move it. It is all two stout lads can do to lift and place the motor / spindle head on the packing block. I suspect it was made too well to sell enough of them. The company that was making the castings for Poolewood started selling their own version. What I read on several UK forums about the new version was slow delivery, bad service, defective parts, and no help from the seller.

http://www.ellsworthstudios.com/david/lathe.html

[bellyup]

Never heard of them before, I have just googled an had a look - seems loosely based on a Nova lathe. Sorry Paul, can't help.
Bruce.

[hughie]

Paul I gather they are popular in the UK have not seen one here in Oz. But putting that aside they look the business and reading the specs encourages me to think they might have been a bit ahead of the times. This often in a product causes it to have a slow take up and on occasion oblivion.

[Paul39]

I put it together yesterday and today rigged 240 volt wire to it (usual here is 120) and eventually fired it up. All the marks were worn off the console and it has 3 on - off switches in addition to the foot petal.

A bit of drinking coffee and staring into space, and some bitter cursing.

It runs well, at 3500 RPM it sounds like a 1950s 2.5 liter V 12 Ferrari Testa Rossa at 7000 RPM at a distance. At dead slow I can not stop it by grabbing the hand wheel.

It has a forward / reverse switch, In reverse it does nothing, in forward it runs in
reverse. By interchanging any two wires on the 3 phase motor I can make it run correctly.

Tomorrow I will drive 50 miles one way over twisty up and down back roads to the estate from where it came and try to locate a manual.

[dr4g0nfly]

you might try contacting them - they offer a good service according to everything I read over here, details are;


Home (http://www.poolewood.co.uk/index.html)

Hallvalue Ltd
t/a Poolewood Machinery
Pett Farm Stockbury
Sittingbourne
Kent ME9 7RJ

Tel:- +44 1622-884-651

[ticklingmedusa]

Bill Grumbine in Pennsylvania used a Poolewood in his first instructional video
"Turned Bowls Made Easy".
His comments indicate that he liked it.
I think since then he has upgraded to something else.
He might have some thoughts both pro and con.
Try to reach him at wonderfulwood.com

[Paul39]

you might try contacting them - they offer a good service according to everything I read over here, details are;


Home (http://www.poolewood.co.uk/index.html)

Hallvalue Ltd
t/a Poolewood Machinery
Pett Farm Stockbury
Sittingbourne
Kent ME9 7RJ

Tel:- +44 1622-884-651

I sent an email asking about the forward - reverse, and about a manual. Within 20 minutes I had this:
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I am sorry, we lost all our data on this lathe some time ago when the company who built them for us went bust.

Regarding the forward and reverse switch. If you have a compressor try blowing the dust out of it.

If that doesn't work you can but a new switch by clicking this link http://www.newark.com/arcolect<wbr>ric-switches/c1570ataaj/<wbr>rocker-switch-dpdt-ctr-off/dp/<wbr>06WX0606 (http://www.newark.com/arcolectric-switches/c1570ataaj/rocker-switch-dpdt-ctr-off/dp/06WX0606)

To make the motor run forward when the switch is in the forward position all you have to do is.

Remove from any power source.

Remove the motor cover where the cable enters. swap two of the live wires over, (there are three) not the earth.

Regards Terry
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I was impressed. Poolewood sounds like a good company to deal with.

I did know about the reversing of any two of the three leads on a 3 phase motor to reverse.

I was out to the estate of the owner of the lathe this morning and found instruction books on everything in the world, but not on the lathe.

All was not lost tho, I dug through the wood pile and found a few bits to play with.

I took a walk around this trip, he had a good chunk of land with hardwood trees, a full size farm tractor, a portable saw mill, a very complete wood shop, and was retired.

ticklingmedusa (http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/9180-ticklingmedusa/), thanks for that info.