Poolewood Fans Take Note *LINK*

Re: Poolewood Fans Take Note

Lee Weed

>Down Here in Texas, that would be called a "Roping Dummy" :)

Re: Poolewood Fans Take Note

Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Hi Mark

Well I am not British, but I correspond with some folks over there. I have been writing back and forth with one gentleman who has been a dealer for Poolewood in the past. He was so disappointed with the new DVSL lathe that he canceled his order and returned the sample. I have not seen it yet, except for that awful picture. I have no idea who did the design work on it, but it sure is clunky looking. The older Poolewoods has a style and grace (if it can be called that) with some very nice lines to them. This thing is - well, ugly.

Bill

Re: Poolewood Fans Take Note

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Can see why the suggestion to change the leg-set. Looks like an exercise in balancing a big rock on soda straws.

Maybe their design sense runs to the School of Oliver. Bed has that "takes two twenty-mule teams to move it" kind of look of the old massive patternmakers lathes. Tailstock seems very light and mismatched by comparison.

Maybe things will fit better when they put the 2 hp model up.

M

Style and Grace

Duane C.Leach

>Style and grace. I think you hit the nail on the head Bill. Only a person with a deep love for what he does would see a pile of steel and iron and comment that it has style or graceful lines. It must be human nature to speak of those materialistic things we care so deeply about (our lathes) with great emotion.

Ain't turning fun

Duane

Re: Poolewood Fans Take Note

Glenn Hodges

>I think the British are copying American business, their corporate exects are starting to make mistakes that could cause collapse of a company. I use one of there old lathes, and love it. If they wanted to improve the company they could tweak the old lathe, and take marketing lessons, and learn how to sell what they had.

Re: Not This One, But

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Glenn,

The Euro line (2000 and others) disappeared in a falling-out between Poolewood and the old lathe's actual maker. Terry Davis & Company only had sales rights to the machine to market under the Poolewood name, not the machine itself. Don't know the details of the argument (nor which side "pulled the plug"), but it had to be pretty serious to cause the whole venture to crash, so Mr. Davis didn't have the option to "learn how to sell what they had."

I would think their problem now is coming up with machines that can meet the expectations of people familiar with the previous design and still not get themselves into a patent fight or other lawsuit with the guy(s) who made the original machines.

Of course, we can also wait to see if and what new name (and color) the "old" lathe's maker gets attached to the previous machines if they're going to get marketed at all. Let's see, White's taken, Black and Gray are out, Mustard's done . . .

How's about Candy Apple Red???

M

Re: Not This One, But

Pascal Oudet

>I've seen an advertisement in the latest issue of Woodturning magazine (in the last pages), by this original maker. it was a very small picture, but it looked quite familiar. it says something like "by the original maker of the Euro line".

Pascal

Re: Bingo!

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Pascal,

Did it give a color?

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motor conversion?

Ruth in So. Cal

>I am looking at the Union Graduate lathes and remembering when I immigrated to NA from the UK none of my plug-ins would work. Will I have to get a new motor and/or rewire? I am buying used so don't have the option of buying one made for NA.

thanks

Ruth

Plug Converter?

Jorge Castaneda ~ Downeast Maine

>Ruth,

If the motor is the same voltage and cycles as we have here, all you need is a plug converter.

$0.02

Jorge

Re: Plug Converter?

Ruth in So. Cal

>Thanks......duh...what do we have :)

Re: Plug Converter?

Leo Van Der Loo

>They have 220V single phase 50 cycles or 380V 3 phase , and up.

We have the 220V single phase but 60 Cycles, so the motor would run faster over here, regular motors run 1440 rpm over there, as I recall, If you add the 20% difference, that would make 1728 rpm over here. I would not expect a 3 phase on the lathe, it's strictly industrial.

Have fun and take care

Leo V

Sounds like a DR3000 with an extra inch

Garrett in Victoria BC

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Re: Plug Converter?

Peter Teubel

>Forget the plug. Just hard-wire it.

Re: Plug Converter?

Bill Howatt

>I imagine they convert single frequency 220V to 3 phase variable frequency to get the variable speed. My General 260 motor controller works on either 50 or 60Hz. The frequency may have to specified in the setup.

Bill

Re: Sounds like a DR3000 with an extra inch

Ruth in So. Cal

>THANKS!