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Just got a used Central Machinery 12x36 lathe. It seems to be just like the Grizzly G4003.
Background; I inadvertently smashed the cover of spindle control switches (lucky didn't break them) when moving the lathe into the shop. I had to remove them to straighten the cover and get the switches to fit the cam again. Also, the previous owner had some electrical issues (lack of understanding mostly) and I'm not sure if all wiring is as from the factory. Maybe one of us put something together wrong.
Question; The Grizzly manual says that "Moving the lever down causes the spindle to rotate counter clockwise.", but I'm unsure where that is viewed from. On my lathe when standing at the tail stock looking toward the spindle the spindle rotates clockwise when the lever is moved down (and counter clockwise when the lever is moved up). Is that backwards?
It all works fine but I don't want to get used to operating the lathe in a non-standard configuration.
Thanks
Background; I inadvertently smashed the cover of spindle control switches (lucky didn't break them) when moving the lathe into the shop. I had to remove them to straighten the cover and get the switches to fit the cam again. Also, the previous owner had some electrical issues (lack of understanding mostly) and I'm not sure if all wiring is as from the factory. Maybe one of us put something together wrong.
Question; The Grizzly manual says that "Moving the lever down causes the spindle to rotate counter clockwise.", but I'm unsure where that is viewed from. On my lathe when standing at the tail stock looking toward the spindle the spindle rotates clockwise when the lever is moved down (and counter clockwise when the lever is moved up). Is that backwards?
It all works fine but I don't want to get used to operating the lathe in a non-standard configuration.
Thanks