Saved from scrap yard

[xmetal]

It's very difficult to test properly and be competitive price wise, so most companies just go with the cheapest tester

That's exactly what I've found. I have a decent PAT tester and I do a proper job but it takes longer which means you have to charge more to justify doing the job in the first place. Unfortunately, the customer generally goes for the cheaper option and uses the 'label stickers' to do the job instead.

 

[Jim Davey]

When this was all new it used to take a team of four persons almost a week to "PAT" test all the stuff in the office. These days we have more stuff, a lot more stuff and it takes one person around a day. I wonder if they actually test anything or just spend all day putting out new stickers

I think you know the answer to that one don't you?

 

[Jim Davey]

It's the same with welder calobrations in a lot of firms too.

 

[gordon stephenson]

Japanese electrikery, I bought a Panasonic tig machine that had come from a large Japanese factory, I was 200V single phase, Only thing that operated was the cooling fan, Took it to Tec-arc at York and they sorted it out to run on 240v at a very reasonable cost,

 

[Turbo]

A place I worked sent 2 of the fitters on a course so we could do our own pat testing. One guy was ok but the other was a clueless twit. I was the unfortunate soul who was the first to use a 4.5" grinder after he 'tested' it. I usually hold onto grinders when I plug them in but this time I didn't and when I switched it on at the plug it ran across the bench, landed on the floor and bust the casing! The twit had locked the switch in the on position when pat testing it but didn't release it when finished! It was just lucky that I wasn't standing in its path as it could've caused a serious injury. Needless to say I had some choice words for him and the maintenance manager gave him a roasting.

 

[Parm]

I think you know the answer to that one don't you?

Of course I do

 

[Robotstar5]

...I was the unfortunate soul who was the first to use a 4.5" grinder after he 'tested' it. I usually hold onto grinders when I plug them in but this time I didn't and when I switched it on at the plug it ran across the bench, landed on the floor and bust the casing! The twit had locked the switch in the on position when pat testing it but didn't release it when finished! It was just lucky that I wasn't standing in its path as it could've caused a serious injury....

Which is why you should always put a grinder down disc upwards

 

[colnerov]

Which is why you should always put a grinder down disc upwards

And leave the guard on.

 

[skotl]

That's exactly what I've found. I have a decent PAT tester and I do a proper job but it takes longer which means you have to charge more to justify doing the job in the first place. Unfortunately, the customer generally goes for the cheaper option and uses the 'label stickers' to do the job instead.

And, full confession time, although I understand the requirements for PAT testing my day job always came first. When the spark would turn up and announce that he "needs to turn the machines off and test them" my response would always be "only when that's been factored into an approved maintenance window when the kit that is servicing hundreds of customers can be brought down in a controlled fashion".

So, to be fair, the guy who slapped a sticker on a power lead worked out fine for me.

 

[robdxr2]

mill is still at work (not that im tinkering with it when i should be working its just self cleaning) im borrowing a transformer from one of are lasers thats not up and running may be a bit big as i think a 2kw laser may use a few more amps than the mill but it drops 415 down to 200v so all good got it going forward and revers and table up and down but no left to right yet. found a capacitor blown on the servo pcb and got one on its way so we will see if it works once fitted still think it was a bargain

 

[Rob85]

Not that I know anything about them but I wouldn't be fixing it at work.... Just in case you do fix it for not a lot and they decide to just hang onto it

 

[Screwdriver]

I had a similar issue with my Bridgeport. Table wouldn't move. Turned out to be the captive nut had become detached from the mounting. They probably have a deliberate weak fixing in case the table is driven too far.

S.

 

[robdxr2]

It's home at last had to wait a while but it's in in all the excitement I forgot to put the transformer on the lorry and it's bloody heavy so will have to get a few people to give me a lift on the pick up with it

One thing has happened it's grown in size as it has arrived looks a lot bigger now

 

[Hood]

Very nice looking mill, this is what a real knee mill should look like, makes a Bridgeport look like what they are.........

It looks very similar in design to a Beaver NC5 that I have.

 

[sardine]

Why is it so low to the floor, does it need to sit on a base ?

Or is it designed for Diddy Men ?

 

[Hood]

Why is it so low to the floor, does it need to sit on a base ?

Or is it designed for Diddy Men ?

Probably because the knee is at it lowest point of travel.

 

[robdxr2]

Ye wound it right down to lower the center of gravity while we moved it

It's the only one any one has seen and I work with 5 people who worked for amada I've a manual but it's all in Japanese

 

[Pete.]

That's a cracker I would love to own that. You did well to save it even if you have to spend a few bob.

 

[Woody.v8]

Ye wound it right down to lower the center of gravity while we moved it

It's the only one any one has seen and I work with 5 people who worked for amada I've a manual but it's all in Japanese

 

[Hood]

It may well be a Shizuoka, lots of European makers used them as base machines and re-badged them. One I know of was Matchmaker.