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Hi all
Anyone interested, or know anyone, who would be interested in a job on the side, rewiring an old Ideal 5250 guillotine? We're in Halesowen (near to Birmingham for those who don't know
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Our usual service people are trying to push us to buy a new machine, as the current one doesn't meet HSE regs, even though its been here for years.
It might prove to be the case that once the wiring is sorted, the motors might be knackered, but I wouldn't hold that against anyone who did the job.
Essentially the machine stopped working, the engineer we called out complained about the wiring without actually saying it was the wiring that was the problem - he just wouldn't look at the rest of it. We bought it second hand, and no doubt some bad things had been done to it. The core safety mechanisms haven't been bypassed or anything (guards have to be down, still requires two switch activation and so on), and I think the only real bypass has been on the overload mechanisms.
So we're looking for an open minded electrical engineer who can look at the problem, see if its a salvageable repair or not, and if so do what he can.
Any takers?
Anyone interested, or know anyone, who would be interested in a job on the side, rewiring an old Ideal 5250 guillotine? We're in Halesowen (near to Birmingham for those who don't know
)Our usual service people are trying to push us to buy a new machine, as the current one doesn't meet HSE regs, even though its been here for years.
It might prove to be the case that once the wiring is sorted, the motors might be knackered, but I wouldn't hold that against anyone who did the job.
Essentially the machine stopped working, the engineer we called out complained about the wiring without actually saying it was the wiring that was the problem - he just wouldn't look at the rest of it. We bought it second hand, and no doubt some bad things had been done to it. The core safety mechanisms haven't been bypassed or anything (guards have to be down, still requires two switch activation and so on), and I think the only real bypass has been on the overload mechanisms.
So we're looking for an open minded electrical engineer who can look at the problem, see if its a salvageable repair or not, and if so do what he can.
Any takers?
