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I received my new PM-1030V lathe two weeks ago. It takes awhile to get the chuck spinning, and I wonder if this is normal.
So how it works is that I press the power button and nothing will happen until I rotate the RPM potentiometer, regardless of the original position of that knob. Then the chuck will get spinning. This adds time because I start and stop a lot when working on the lathe. I had hoped that I could leave the pot set to my working RPM and just turn it off and on.
If anybody reading this has a 1022 or 1030, my simple question is do you need to turn the RPM knob in order to get the chuck spinning?
As far as I know, my lathe may be acting normally. When I took machining classes, we had large, old lathes that would get going as soon as you turned them on (or engaged the drive lever).
So how it works is that I press the power button and nothing will happen until I rotate the RPM potentiometer, regardless of the original position of that knob. Then the chuck will get spinning. This adds time because I start and stop a lot when working on the lathe. I had hoped that I could leave the pot set to my working RPM and just turn it off and on.
If anybody reading this has a 1022 or 1030, my simple question is do you need to turn the RPM knob in order to get the chuck spinning?
As far as I know, my lathe may be acting normally. When I took machining classes, we had large, old lathes that would get going as soon as you turned them on (or engaged the drive lever).
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