Scud

Is there an overload reset button on the power feed controller ?
If so perhaps it needs resetting.

Emgee

If the motor's not running, rather than mechanically not driving and it's fitted with a Limit switch on the bed, then the plunger on this can stick in, if pushed too hard by the stop fitted on the table.

Edited By Nick Hughes on 12/12/2020 12:16:30

Quick and dirty test is to try and back drive the leadscrew. Best if there is a nut on the end but if not suitable soft packing and parallel grip pliers or similar to get a hold on it should suffice.

If the screw turns relatively freely it will, in conjunction with similar observations of the gear train, help you narrow down where the drive has been lost.

Shear pins or similar weak links like Myfords Tufnol gears are normal in feed drive trains.

Sometimes designers get too clever by half.

Most annoying one I ever saw was a shallow plastic key between gear and shaft instead of aproper metal one. Pretty much unfindable wiithout the book or a full strip.

Clive

The Beaver manual is available online, for free, in many places. If you want a printed copy of the same information, you can buy one from the lathes.co.uk website.

The manual would be a good place to start: if you post the link from which you obtain your own copy, then when you tell us "I need to remove item number 7 from page 32 of the manual" we can all literally be on the same page.

Even if the manual does not cover exactly your set up, it will be close due to the family relationship between machines.

OK. I have just checked. The manual links (which actually appear on this very forum – you would have found them if you had read through all the Beaver-related stuff here to see if that related to your issue) have expired.

Send me a private message with your email address and I will email one to you.

For replacement gears have look in HPC gears of Chesterfield and or DAVAL in Hatfield Hertfordshire catalogues both have a large range of gears. John