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Machines No Longer Work, feeling like an asshole right about now |
 Oct 27 2009, 09:01 AM
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this is definately something im doing wrong, as both machines worked before I took them apart, spent literally the last 3 hours fiddling with this, adjusting that, getting fucking nowhere. trawled through past posts and did things like making sure all screws are iron or steel (I have a brass frame), checked power supply is good, clipcord is good. coils work on both thats not the problem. so im thinking its something to do with the several thousand washers and things that keep the right distances for the screws. any my problems are
first machine; shader- no movement, nothing, tried moving abar further and closer to frame not a fucking peep. was shady before being took apart but did actually work liner- abar "sticks" to coils when footpedal is pressed down instead of going down then up again like I say tried everything I can think of/ read of but theres definately something so fucking obvious I just havent done it help -------------------- "Life is the hardest teacher, she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards"
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Oct 28 2009, 08:03 PM
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may hafta go with shorties and larger height on the yolk though,hope not,but i like em stilted up,looks cool,otherwise ya can go with odd sized coils,seen em in four different heights fer coil cores so far, 3/4, 1 inch, 1 1/8 and 1 1/4,could make em up and use em instead of tryin to go with 1 inch shorties,had one frame from a guy who bought it off e-bay,just a blank he shaped up to use,he milled out the frame to put it inside the slotted area,but he gave up on the frame as it had some issues,i been lookin at it for about 6 months,know what i'm gunna do to it but just haven't been into it yet,post sum pics if ya can
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Oct 29 2009, 06:18 AM
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Cool... Now when it comes to "Insulators" you KNOW what you're talking about.
-------------------- If you ain't livin' on the edge, you're takin' up too much space.
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