Gaep spinner

[Donkey]

What is the ideal speed to use a gaep spinner in a pillar drill

Lidl have pillar drills on offer tomorrow variable from 500-2000rpm

Would this be ok

Cheers in advance

Donkey

[fenboy]

There was no mention of speed on mine keep it lubricated and it will be fine at 500 rpm

[Cyrus1988]

I think I read somewhere that 600rpm was good.

[fieldwanderer]

What do you lube 'em with? I only have a cheapo brass spinner, that I rarely use, but everything I try just leaves a black mess on the cartridge, including resizing wax

[sitsinhedges]

I run my spinner as slowly as possible, maybe 250rpm and use a quick mist of PTFE spray lube from Screwfix across the shell mouth, because that's what I have knocking about (I mainly use it for planer/thicknesser tables to stop softwood sticking from resin build up.)

[Andy H]

The faster you run the roll crimp tool the more prone you are to overheat the plastic causing it to mould into shape and not roll it into a neat crimp, My crimp tool is mounted directly onto the motor shaft and controlled with an invertor with a speed range from 1rpm to 3000rpm , At the higher speed it will give a perfect crimp but anything more than 1 second of pressure and the cartridge when fired shears the crimp off instead of unfolding it as the plastic has heated up to much and moulded it into shape.

[pestcontrol1]

Not sure how fast the drill is that i use now but the first one was a 1000 rpm and was to fast as above it just burnt the plastic into shape. The new one is turned down to as low as it will go around 450/500 and is fine as for lube i tend to use Vaseline and a small paint brush but i find as the brass heats up with use you don"t need to lube as much

[Tad-blody]

The faster you run the roll crimp tool the more prone you are to overheat the plastic causing it to mould into shape and not roll it into a neat crimp, My crimp tool is mounted directly onto the motor shaft and controlled with an invertor with a speed range from 1rpm to 3000rpm , At the higher speed it will give a perfect crimp but anything more than 1 second of pressure and the cartridge when fired shears the crimp off instead of unfolding it as the plastic has heated up to much and moulded it into shape.

Is the invertor you use commercially available or is it something you've made yourself?

[Andy H]

It's a Mitsubushi D700 240v 1phase in to 240v 3 phase out powering a .18KW dual voltage 240/415 3 phase motor.

I got mine from work but they are on the Bay for £120.

[Tad-blody]

Great thanks.

[Continental Shooter]

the engine of the various machines (Colvini, GAEP, etc) are all 900 rpm and they roll just fine.

 

It's the roller material (steel vs Brass) itself that makes the difference (if you're looking for aesthetic and that bit more precision) with steel being the best.