Centec question

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Posted by Garry Bell on 29/01/2019 15:16:32:
Hi Bill, what would be a real help would be the diameter and unsprung length of the spring and SWG or dia of spring steel itself.
On a different note, I bought an old Turner Universal tool and cutter grinder last night, it looks interesting, delivered Saturday, I cant wait.

Garry, sorry for the delay, only just remembered.

The spring has 7 turns, uncompressed free length of 4 1/4"

OD 1.64" i.e. 1 41/64"

Wire diameter, as far as I can measure id 0.105", so I guess 12 gauge

Any more queries, just shout up.

Bill

[Garry BellParticipant @garrybell53110]

Bill, I will get some spring steel ordered and make one up along with the spring cap and drawbar.
Thank you once again for your help.

Garry

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Posted by Garry Bell on 30/01/2019 22:20:33:
Bill, I will get some spring steel ordered and make one up along with the spring cap and drawbar.
Thank you once again for your help.

Garry

No problem, if you're ever near Buxton, feel free to drop in for a brew

Bill

[Garry BellParticipant @garrybell53110]

Thank you, I will do Bill, same goes for you, if you are ever over near Whitefield.

Garry

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

Posted by peak4 on 30/01/2019 19:04:26:

Garry, I'd forgotten I was a member, there's also a Yahoo Group for the Centec with a few files on there as well

Bill

Good luck with that, nothing posted since last summer and you cant add new posts, I think the moderator is asleep.

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Posted by Dave Halford on 31/01/2019 10:20:54:

Posted by peak4 on 30/01/2019 19:04:26:

Garry, I'd forgotten I was a member, there's also a Yahoo Group for the Centec with a few files on there as well

Bill

Good luck with that, nothing posted since last summer and you cant add new posts, I think the moderator is asleep.

Yahoo made all sorts of changes to how the groups ran a little while ago.
I had/have BT internet and this seemed to cause me major problems with the way BT and Yahoo groups interacted.
It wouldn't surprise me if the owner/mod has been denied access to their own group.
Does anyone on here know who it was and an alternative method of contacting them?

I kept getting chucked off various groups for no apparent reason. In the end I re-joined all of "my" groups using a new Yahoo email address created specially for it.

Bill

[Chris GunnParticipant @chrisgunn36534]

Bill, thanks for the info on the feed motors. I will pick them up on Sunday so I can have a look at what exactly is fitted to this machine, as I think it has been modified at some point.

Chris Gunn

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Bill,

I've just searched Yahoo Groups, and found this for the Centec group:

314 members • Last activity Oct 17, 2017

… Looks like it's a 'Norwegian Blue'

MichaelG.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

It was fairly useless, anyway. Mostly decent posts by Binswood, IIRC (Gary on here). Posts sometimes took as much as four days between submitting and them appearing on the listing. Sometimes never, dependent on the whim of the ‘moderator’.

This forum is far better for Centec info.

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