Thread: looking at a midi lathe

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Originally Posted by delbs

Was there much involved in fitting the generic evs to the m305. I am really interested in the m305 but your right theres a huge price difference for the manual and evs version.. did you have to resize/machine down the size of arbor or anything?

I am making an assumption that your questions were being asked of me.

I had to bore two new holes in the motor mount plate to suit the new motor, The drive pulley slipped off the old motor and fitted perfectly onto the new motor. You will need to build a bracket for the switch gear. That will depend on if you want the switch on the lathe or on the bench. The conversion was simple with a little bit of thought.

Jim

Woops yes sorry that was for you Jim. Thanks for the answer. Where did you buy your conversion kit?

Originally Posted by delbs

Woops yes sorry that was for you Jim. Thanks for the answer. Where did you buy your conversion kit?

David Drescher at South East Wood Turning Supplies. Have a look at Jim Carrolls' web site as well, he is a sponsor of this board.

Jim

If you are going to buy a VS lathe, make sure you look closely at the speed ranges to make sure the range is wide enough to suit what you want to do. Otherwise you will be changing belt speeds more often than you had hoped for.

While an AC motor with a VFD will give you a very wide useable speed range, at least one of the lathes I looked at with a VS DC motor had quite narrow speed ranges.