AndersK
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Is that just a one size fits all
Is that just a one size fits all
Never did manage to decipher them. Mine were 4 pages of Chinese instructions, with 8 hand drawn pictures.
Many, many hours of youtube and facebook study got me there in the end. What does your control look like?
The temp control on mine reads more like a voltage adjustment, so by trial and error I found out how to set minimum temp.
Tapping in the drill.
Bought some tapholders from eBay about 8£ each. Seems to be quite ok.
Easy to put in and out and just enough play to find its way in.
This is tapping a M16 blind hole.
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Do they have any torque control to prevent the tap breaking if it gets stuck? Or do you have to be very quick on the stop button?
Yeh, I spent a while deciding to bite the bullet on it. Talked myself into it as it will last me for a good while and I shouldn't kill it through misuse. I've got an angle grinder I'm in the process of adapting to run the disc on the old belt and disc sander, was an Aldi one but I knocked it off the bench and the handle detached from the body, it's seen some use though so it doesn't owe me anything, and this way it'll live on a bit. Also, somehow I've done it again, meant to post thatbin the today I acquired thread^^ That's a pricey bit of kit, but at 1500W will be much better than the average, which seem to be in the 3/400 - 700/800 range.
My 'manual' is an A4 sheet, printed on one side only...... This is [hopefully] what the control looks like, + a remote control which is slightly different from the one above, in that it has "Off" and "On" below which are another 2x buttons with "-" and "+"
This arrived today, after burning out the motor on my draped belt and disc sander I spend a while humming and haying about what to do. A new motor for it was 120ish and as I've been using it for both wood and metal work (with extraction) I thought I would probably run into the same problem so decided an upgrade was in order.
I'll put up some pics if it's not to horrendous! I'm using the anglegrinder to driving the belt that used to go from the motor to drive the sanding belt. Need to do some cobbling to make some bracketry to hold it in place. Got the pulley fitted onto the grinder so a bit more fettling and it might be running.Be interested how you get on with that, I'm after something decent and been contemplating building one based on Jeremy Schmidt's design (youtube build its a good watch) but as with many projects I know the cost will soon tot up!
Just made a bush fix on her car. Bit of oil can and 3 jubilee clamps to fix the exhaust, at least it wasnt the back box again. Centre section this time, just what I wanted after a nice 12hour nightshift
Looked online, 50 quid for a new one so I'm tempted to just replace it instead of further bodgery, but the temp repair will last until I get round to it.
Plan B - aka the Baldrick one of much cunning.....
I think I know what my next purchase will beIt lives! Went out after lunch and fired her up - all looks good and within 3 minutes it was belting out heat. Thanks to @mrsbruce I managed vto get to grips with some of the functions - set the time to 2:07.... either that or it thinks it's 2nd of July........
Off out again to run it a bit more to harden off the fire rope glue and plan the outside baffle.
Happy chap, me.
What’s the diesel usage like?
It lives! Went out after lunch and fired her up - all looks good and within 3 minutes it was belting out heat. Thanks to @mrsbruce I managed vto get to grips with some of the functions - set the time to 2:07.... either that or it thinks it's 2nd of July........
Off out again to run it a bit more to harden off the fire rope glue and plan the outside baffle.
Happy chap, me.