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General Category => Tool tips & reviews => Topic started by: Terry on August 16, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

Title: Graduate cuts out
Post by: Terry on August 16, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

Hi,
I’ve fitted new bearings and a new belt, but I can’t adjust the belt tension. The lever next to the bottom of the motor for belt tension won’t move despite lots of WD40.
Consequently the motor cuts out and I don’t know how to reset it.
It’s a Graduate Lathe Company lathe from 1995.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Terry

Title: Re: Graduate cuts out
Post by: The Bowler Hatted Turner on August 16, 2018, 09:17:45 PM

terry make sure you are not trying to change the tension whilst the belt is still tensioned(if you know what I mean)?