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    I bought a princess auto 7" lathe (all I have room for right now) and I have been using the hell out of it. On my last project it was kind of large, I had brought out a 1" plate mostly round and was turning it round on the lathe, a kind of interrupted cut from my eyeballing it with saws and using the lathe to clean it up.

    Every so often if I got greedy on a cut the lathe would stall out and a light would come on. No big deal shut it off, let it cool down and go again only now making a non interrupted cut I can't even take a 1 thou cut without it tripping. The fuse doesn't blow and neither does my circuit breaker but that overload trips all the time even when cold.

    What did I break?



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    Default Re: Chinese lathe electrical help

    What is the nature of the overload device? Probably a simple thermal breaker, you may have over taxed it, now needs replacement, I doubt if P.A. carries spares, check the make model No. and rating and find a replacement.
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    Default Re: Chinese lathe electrical help

    One big failure of Chinese machines fitted with AC motors is the start capacitor failure rate.
    It pays to fit ones of N.A. origin etc.
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