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Could the owners of the Nova 16/24-44 lathe please put up a review of their lathe here. Thank you.
True, I may be a sort of beginner, but with EVS, all you have to do is slowly turn up the RPM's until it wobbles a little, then back it down till it stops wobbling, there you have it, the perfect speed.
then you take a couple cuts to round it, and ramp up the speed some more. it is sooooooo easy. If I were to get another Nova, I would do the variable speed mod.
Bart,Search on my user name and you will find my articles on converting the 1624 to variable speed.
Bart,
Check this out. It was nowhere near $1k for the EVS conversion. Chris didn't mention DVR.
I instruct quite a few turning seminars. One of the facilities I teach at has a 3000 and the old style square shaped bed flexes enough to mess with headstock/tailstock alignment on an uneven surface. I own a dvr xp here at home, the trapezoidal bed cross section is ridgid enough that the unit will stand on three legs. Anything I throw at it, including on the outrigger it handles just fine. The speed range on the 16-24 gives you low enough speeds you can work some fairly out of balance items. Yes, changing speeds is not as smooth as evs.
So the change over on the Nova 16/24-44 from strictly belt drive to EVS will cost how much... $400-$600. When if I wanted to wait for another $400-$600 above that I could have a DVR.
I don't think the treadmill motor conversion can deliver the same kind of power for 16" inboard or 29" outboard.
Tim Geist, the Nova service rep in the States, takes good care of customers.
Do you have a number or email for
Tim Geist?
You can see my solution on the headstock. Speaker magnet holds the knockout, wrench, whatever I need. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d160/GoodOnesGone/P3140057.jpg
You HAVE variable speed. The wood is moving faster past the gouge at the rim of a bowl than the center, right? What you lack is infinitely variable rpm to fiddle with. No great loss. Vary your feed rate to compensate.
Michael, thanks for the tip. I've got some old blown speakers that should be perfect. No worries on the lack of "EVS", but the low speed belt change has been a bit of a challenge with a rib hanging on me on the second or third step . No problem on the higher ranges, because large pulley diameters are visible, and the small headstock pulley step has plenty of clearance. Just a matter of practice, I suspect.