Jennifer L Smith on sun 8 sep 02
I'm posting this for a friend and I hope someone can help since this is outside my range of knowledge. She has a hand-me-down Amaco wheel with a foot pedal that you must constantly have your foot on (like a gas pedal) to maintain the speed. If she takes her foot off the pedal the clay flies off the wheel. Obviously, this is a pain in the a** and she finds it impossible to throw anything large where she might have to stand. I told her to call Amaco to see if there is a replacement pedal, however I was wondering if there was some kind of adjustment she could make on her own equipment that would fix this. She throws on Pacificas in her class at the community college and is having trouble coming home and trying to work on this wheel. As a newbie she's getting really discouraged. I seem to remember this coming up before but couldn't find it in the archives. Her husband is an electrician so I'm sure if someone can point her in the right direction or give better advice than A
maco they will be able to handle the repair.
Thank you for any help,
Jennifer
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Tim on sun 8 sep 02
Jennifer,
I don't have an AMACO wheel, but I believe that the foot pedals are pretty
similar in construction to my Brent wheels(?) If you take the 4 screws out
of the bottom of the footpedal, you'll see two potentiometers or "pots"
(variable resistors you can turn with a screwdriver). In mine, one's red
and the other is blue and are marked "HI" and "LOW", these help control the
current to the motor at high and low speeds. Most likely, the resistor in
the pot is just getting old and corroded. Tell her to move them back and
forth several times through their entire range and then see if she can
adjust the speed to what she wants. Sometimes some WD-40 (tuner cleaner
would be better) will help. You usually can't adjust one without having to
tweak the other a bit too. If this doesn't work, one or both probably need
to be replaced. If her husband's an electrician he should be able to test
them and do the replacement with no problem. So I won't try to describe how
here.
Best of luck.
- Tim Miller -
Indianapolis, IN
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Subject: Amaco wheel--footpedal
I'm posting this for a friend and I hope someone can help since this is
outside my range of knowledge. She has a hand-me-down Amaco wheel with a
foot pedal that you must constantly have your foot on (like a gas pedal) to
maintain the speed. If she takes her foot off the pedal the clay flies off
the wheel. Obviously, this is a pain in the a** and she finds it impossible
to throw anything large where she might have to stand. I told her to call
Amaco to see if there is a replacement pedal, however I was wondering if
there was some kind of adjustment she could make on her own equipment that
would fix this. She throws on Pacificas in her class at the community
college and is having trouble coming home and trying to work on this wheel.
As a newbie she's getting really discouraged. I seem to remember this
coming up before but couldn't find it in the archives. Her husband is an
electrician so I'm sure if someone can point her in the right direction or
give better advice than A
maco they will be able to handle the repair.
Thank you for any help,
Jennifer
beesknees71@lycos.com
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