If you're dumb like me...

[dgscott]

and you accidentally break your Sieg type metal lathe, you need to know about John Gerling and repaircontrol.com. I sent off my control box to him late last week (on a holiday weekend, no less), and I got an email from him today saying he had found the problem (power rectifying circuit), replaced it, and it was on it's way back to me. All for a remarkably reasonable price.

I'm glad there's someone out there who knows about things like power rectifying circuits, who can reverse the dumb mistakes of people like me, and who are fast, reasonable, and reliable.

Doug

 

[randyrls]

and you accidentally break your Sieg type metal lathe, you need to know about John Gerling and repaircontrol.com.

Doug; John does good work!

A while back there was a gentleman named "UncleRabid" who did this work and did it well and was always there to help with controller problems. Like many old timers, he went west to the Happy Hunting Ground. :frown:

 

[Penultimate]

What happened?

Doug
What did you do to break your lathe? Mine just failed and I'm not sure why.

I found John's site then I had an engineer (a spark chaser, I'm just a gearhead) look at it. He determined it was the MOSFETS because it only ran at high speed. I bought some new ones and he replaced it and am up and running.

My next choice was John.

 

[just_call_me_dusty]

I too love people who know about things that I don't... only my experience has to do with motorcycles...same but different...
Glad your up and running again.

 

[dgscott]

Doug
What did you do to break your lathe? Mine just failed and I'm not sure why.
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Moved the carriage all the way to the left to make some room for some threading work and hit the "on" switch. The chuck slammed into the carriage and fried the power whatever circuit. Not the brightest thing I've done in 60+ years.
Doug