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I have recently helped a friend to renovate a Bridgeport Varispeed. There was no table feed fitted but we used a new Align 110 volt kit and took the 110 volts off the existing transformer fitted in the control box. We also used the 25 volt feed through a rectitier to power a new control panel which works everything including motor, table feed, coolant and work light. So there are no high voltages in the hand controls everything is powered by solenoids. The DROs we powered from a 13amp socket which is also fed off the original Bridgeport Control box transformer.
Glad you have got the electrics thing sorted out.
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We have a Warco WM180.
It was supplied with some additional recommended parts to get us up and running, one of which was a Keyless Drill Chuck.I went to test fit it tonight but am a little confused
The only way I can see to fit the Drill Chuck is to fit it in the TailStock using one of the two Dead Centres. The Lathe comes with 2 (2MT & 3MT), both of these appear to spin in the TailStock and the Drill Chuck surely needs to be held securely?
The other is a 2MT Arbour B16, I cannot remember what that was to be used for, but I tried it on the Drill Chuck, whilst it fits it still spins.
Nigel,
It sounds as if your guides are hopelessly mis-aligned. I had to resort to a little re-working to get mine to line up with the wire system, one being about 1/8th out and the other about 0.04 out in opposite directions.
The guide stays were pressings and the rollers attached onto a casting welded onto these stays. Further to this mis-alignment the guides moved when clamping the stays at differing positions. I lightly skimmed all the contact surfaces to true it all up. I concluded the welding jig (if one existed!) was being used as a door stop when my parts were made. My saw is a Nu Tool (laughably from Doncaster, Ying Tong Province), my friends saw is a Sealey (part SWS v3), which has far better guide stays and adjustment for rotation of the guide rollers. This Sealey saw is a far better product than the Nu Tool and was easier to set up in a fraction of the time that mine took, it is appreciably newer though so it may well be that there is on going development back in Ying