DanishMan Report post Posted October 25, 2018 Dear Friends I bought an old skiving machine and got it to work nicely with a 220 volt motor. Now I bought an even older machine, and when looking for spare parts, they are hard to find, except when turning to China. But what is the quality of chinese sparepars, i.e. bell knife, belts grindstone etc? Any ideas? Brgds DanishMan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimi Report post Posted October 25, 2018 Hello DanishMan, what make is it? Fortschritt,Fortuna,Fav?? maybe you could show a picture of the machine? I don´t know about bell knifes and grind stones but i have a belt from the last owner and he said it was new, it has cracked and come apart. the rubber has perished. if i compare this to one i bought from Fortuna, the one from Fortuna feels and looks better. The feed stones from china will not fit the fortuna (they might fit other makes) as they are to big in diameter. you would have to grind a small corner off or get a similar cheap part from china for the feed stone. the metal feed roller i bought came out of shape.(they refunded and said i could keep the wheel) saying that i bought a emery feed stone from seick and that also came out of shape. (was changed and 2nd wheel was better) I recently bought one from Ebay which was boxed new from Fortuna and it was perfect first time. I am not a big fan of buying original parts at high prices but some times it is worth it. the feed wheel on ebay was 30 pounds and if you buy this from Fortuna it would cost around 90+vat+postage. What i done was asked for prices of the parts from both places and compared the prices. some are almost the same and if i can remember others are even more expensive from seick. I think both sell the bell knife around the same price so in this case i bought it from Fortuna, I think it was about 40-50 euros. hope this helps DanishMan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimi Report post Posted November 3, 2018 On 10/25/2018 at 10:27 AM, DanishMan said: But what is the quality of chinese sparepars, i.e. bell knife, belts grindstone etc? Any ideas? Hi, Did you find the parts you were looking for?? Who is the maker of the skiver machine?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanishMan Report post Posted November 4, 2018 Hi Jimi I have not gone further so far. And as you said - probably better to buy original stuff, though they are more difficult to get hold of. I am receiving a big 220 volt clutch motor soon. I hope that it is sufficient torque to run the skiving machine. The fact that it does not have to drive the machine from zero speed, but engages at around 1400 rpm should give hope. Best regards Danish Man Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
