The Home Machinist!

I have a Servo 140 that was given to me. There is a "flat" spot on the armature. I polished the commutator and cleaned the brushes. It worked great for about 30 seconds. It will stop on the "dead" spot and won't run again unless I turn the motor past the bad spot. Anyone have a g...

BDI is what I used. Though its probably an old release now. Might need your advice as/if I ever progress on the project!
Marty

What are PM's Fred?

I would leave it up to the moderator of this group. This site belongs to you fellows. Whatever the majority can tolerate is fine by me. OCCASIONAL Commercial posts shouldn't be a huge problem with the owner of this site. Will Jordan has kindly offered to help moderate Live Steam. Ok with you fellows...

Marty, You probably have already done this, but perhaps people need to be reminded why we are doing this. 1) It is not because we have too much time on our hands. 2) It is because the old perl based software was having problems keeping up with the high volume. The old perl softare currently uses 100...

Hmm, strange Gene. I've not had any problems either. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif"%20alt="[/img]

As someone else noted, if you don't click LOGOUT and just close the window or browse a different site and come back, you don't have to log back in IF you clicked the REMEMBER Me box when you logged in initially.

Have you tried playing with the FLAT and THREAD buttons on the upper right. Figure out which you like best and set it that way in Display preferences in MY HOME.

I have one of those little guys! Wouldn't give it up for nuttin' Handy little devil for small stuff....

No PROBLEM At all! Leave it this way!
Marty

Nice part! I'm impressed. Some day....

I understand. It is a radical change. I'm doing my best to help out where I can. The registration issue is the biggest bug-a-boo. But most have gotten through it unscathed. I highly recommend checking the remember me box at log in this will help some. Loading speed of the site is helped with the new...