"OFFER: CITYSPORTS walking treadmill, speed goes up to 6mph, machine needs some work. (Thetford)".
Ah, ok, 'needs some work'. This probably means that there is no speed control, we had one like that. You walk along and eventually end up running like hell trying to keep up with the machine. 6 mph is just a number you pass on the way to ????
I will pass on that offer. My DIY does not reach to that kind of stuff.
I dunno: if the item interests you, is it worth going to take a look?
I bought a quite reasonable DSLR camera from eBay for £9.99 even though the description was the one word: "dead."
I guessed - rightly as it happens - that it just had dirty battery contacts. A quick clean and - bingo! Everything works.
Nick
Well anyone that wants a completely repaired Stihl pressure washer that I must have reassembled wrong, cos it still don't f****ng work, after spending more on spare parts than a new washer cost me, can have it, for free.
I have better things to do than dissemble it yet again and try and work out which little pingfuckits go which way round in which hole.
Life is too short, and a NON GERMAN piece of kit was cheaper and worked FAR better and more reliably.
German engineering is utter crap some times.
But your skills at remote diagnosis are outstanding.
Yes if this is quite an old design, the speed control could be analogue and they are notorious for drift in the servo. However, I would suspect that the owner has tried to get it fixed and got the usual, its cheaper to get a new model mantra. Its a pity as a lot of older exercise gear was accessible as it had knobs, the new stuff is touch screen and hence unusable by a blind person.
Brian
I was suggesting one of many possible problems, speaking from personal experience. But I will take your recognition of my abilities at face value, thank you very much.
FWIW There's quite a few videos on YouTube on repurposing treadmill motors into more useful things.
Not hard as there's not much point in running nowhere. Sounds like the sort of thing they might have in prison as a punishment.
If you have heart trouble, they make you run on a treadmill :-)
So if you were thinking "I would rather die than run on a treadmill", you probably will :-)
That's called a Cardiac Stress Test by the way. I presume they are hiding the Crash Cart nearby. But can't bring it out in the open, as that would scare the patient.
Paul
But do monitor your heart activity while they do that.
Nope.
No they don't.
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