AutoMach HCT-30

[Power Carver Dan]

Hello,
I have an AutoMach HCT-30 and I want to purchase a new set of brushes for it. Does anyone know where I can purchase any parts instead of sending the unit in for service? Thank You

[Dull Knife]

Originally Posted by Power Carver Dan

Hello,
I have an AutoMach HCT-30 and I want to purchase a new set of brushes for it. Does anyone know where I can purchase any parts instead of sending the unit in for service? Thank You

check with the company that made/sold the unit....maybe they can mail you a set for your tool.

[Paul_Guraedy]

Brushes are available through the Smoky Mountain Woodcarvers Supply.

I checked my brushes and, apparently, did not get it back together properly, or got something down in the hole, or it was just one he......ck of a coincidence. But, I had been carving with it for several days without a problem. Then yesterday evening, I started to carve on a black walnut bird and when I turned on the automach there was a pop, a flash and a very startled carver. It blew the cap off one of the brushes. I put it back together (it did not even damage the threads on the cap), with trepidation turned it on......nothing.

I went online and found that Smoky Mountain Woodcarvers Supply (Townsend, TN) is the repair service for Automach. I am mailing my machine over for an estimate.

Paul

[Paul_Guraedy]

My frien's now and then you just get plumb lucky. I mentioned that I had an interesting experience with my automach. Well, the other day a carving friend listened to my description of this experience (by now the flash of light has reached the level of a comet and the pop.....uhhhh.....boom shook the building). I explained that I had found the repair service and contacted them. The problem being that I really needed that tool to finish a black walnut bird.

She told me that her husband enjoyed "tinkering" with electronics and she could ask him to take a look at the automach. She took it home, sent me an email about 2 hours later saying it's fixed.....at least for now. There could be a deeper problem in the motor that he can't reach; but, for now it's working. He had to replace a capacitor and rectifier, whatever the he......ck those are.

I wrote Smoky Mountain Carvers Supply and thanked them for their help, told them they may still get the automach; but, for now, I'm back carving with it.