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Neil and plt43, my stop bar was stuck! I think a shaving was stuck in there, I blew it out real good with my air compressor and oila it started running again--thanks for pointing me in a right...

I purchased a Vicmarc VL-240 several months ago, and have been liking it so far. Yesterday I went down to my shop to do a NE bowl, and turned the power on to my lathe and it will not start--when I...

Hey Colin, thanks for the post--I had narrowed my choices down to a Robust-an American Beauty, a Oneway and the Vicmarc-it may sound silly but I felt like a digital speed readout was an essential...

Treecycle, this is a brand new lathe and it is made for the USA market by Vicmarc and therefore it is set up to run on our higher voltage residential circuits at 220 volts, so in short it is...

I appreciate the input folks, I am still not sure if I should mess with my VFD, I'm not going to at this point. My distributor I purchased the lathe from has been very supportive, and I hoping he...

Thanks for the feedback Simon and Optimark, I too a thinking there is an issues with my particular lathe--Marco--a principal at Vicmarc--was not helpful when my distributor I bought the lathe from...

Thanks for the feedback folks, Acco, I didn't see anything about adjusting the VFD on my lathe in the manual, but I have not adjusted it due to that--I would be very interested to know what...

Thanks for the reply Paul, I do in fact have my pulley set at the 1-3 ratio, and the wood I am working with is green spalted maple. So this doesn't seem to lead anywhere as to a reason for what I am...

I recently purchased a Vicmarc 240 ASM heavy duty lathe. I went with the Vic largely due to the recommendation of my contact at the US distributor of Vicmarc lathes--Woodworkers Emporium. I like many...