It’s about time something like that was available. Swapping change gears is a pain, and full electronic control drags the traditional gearbox into the twentieth century. I’d happily buy one even though they have fallen into the trap of operating several complex functions via just five buttons and a tiny screen for the menus.

I think you wil find it is  not an electronic gear change, it has an ELS type electronic drive to the lead screw and the pitch is set to whatever numbers you enter rather than selecting from a range of gears which woul dbe the case if it were an electric gear change. Similar sort of thing to the EL300 which I have posted about here before.

Will have a look as this may also use the direct drive of the 210D where the brushless motor’s shaft is actually the lathe spindle. which makes it easier to keep track of spindle & leadscrew position. EDIT no separate motor and two range pulleys

As for the 210G that is a geared head lathe Big knob at the top selects two different gear ratios. Unlikely to be any syncromesh so will need changing with the lathe stopped and the chuck rocking by hand to help it into gear just like other gear head lathes.

My 100yr old Drummond can still cut any thread. Complex electronics have a 0.5% failure rate out of the box and at best 14yrs MTBF. By the way that doesn’t mean it won’t fail for 14 years so it will outlive you it means ALL units will have failed within 14 years.

Bazyle,

That’s a novel interpretation of

Mean Time Between Failures

… could you please explain ?

MichaelG.

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Ref. https://fiixsoftware.com/maintenance-metrics/mean-time-between-fail-maintenance/

On 22 November 2024 at 09:57 Bazyle Said:

My 100yr old Drummond can still cut any thread. Complex electronics have a 0.5% failure rate out of the box and at best 14yrs MTBF. By the way that doesn’t mean it won’t fail for 14 years so it will outlive you it means ALL units will have failed within 14 years.

Wow. I suppose I’d better throw away every electronic device in this house, as very few of them are less than 14 years old. But MTBF is Mean Time Between Failure not Maximum, which suggests your conclusion is flawed. Hopefully your Drummond is still treadle driven, so you can wear out your own joints instead of easily replaceable parts.

I wonder what the failure rate for new, complex, mass-produced mechanical things is? 0.5% seems like an acceptably low number to me. I’ve recovered dozens of brand new vehicles from the importers quayside to the nearest dealer for repair before they could be delivered to the dealer that ordered them. As had all of my colleagues.