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    Any solutions to my problem?

    Most 'modern' (i.e. in the past 30-40 yrs) household sewing machines have 'electronic' controls and some of the foot pedals have a pot (vs a rheostat) inside. A bit of re-wiring might be required, since the connections are often to only two terminals, but the mechanical system is pretty well...
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    Any solutions to my problem?

    A generic sewing machine pedal? Or a guitar volume foot pedal?
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    :)
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    I don't really see your point. Here's a snip from the Logan 210 manual: I've confirmed several of those spindle speeds using a hand-held tachometer (reflective tape on the spindle), so it seems accurate for my machine.
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    Thanks, John. I joined your group at groups.io and I'll do some reading there. For now I'm going to see if I can get a stepper motor belted to the end of the leadscrew with a simple controller for speed and rotation direction. If that's successful, I may move on to an ELS at some point.
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    With the back gears the Logan will do as slow as 70 or 30 rpm, depending on the motor belt position.
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    The Logan has back gears so the low speeds (with power) are a big improvement over the 7x lathe. It's the longitudinal feed rate for turning- .0046"/rev is the slowest- that I don't like, for now. The 7x with aftermarket gears gets the feed rate down to .0026"/rev which is almost, but not quite...
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    Thanks, John. I've looked around on the internet and there don't seem to be any "off the shelf" "plug and play" ELS setups for sale. If I could buy something like Jon Bryan's "Atomic" ELS 'off the shelf' I'd probably do it. I'm not interested in writing and debugging code, etching PCBs, or...
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    3D Printer Recommendations

    Any opinions on the Prusa printers? https://www.prusa3d.com/ When I hear 'some troubleshooting required" I tend to run away... :)
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    Machine I hate my change gears!

    True..........once one gets past the hundreds (for me, thousands) of hours to climb up that learning curve and do the mod$ and programming, etc.... :) Anyway, that would take the 'hobby' out of it for me...it's 'pastime' not 'production' . That said, I think a Craftex CX701 (or similar) might...
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