Greetings all; Just for S&G I stopped at the place that still has that old Porter lathe he wanted $500 for a couple years ago. About a 16"er, 6 foot or more bed, but no motor. It would have been at least a year at my pace to bring it back to life.
But that wasn't the surprise. That was in the form of an old air compressor he had taken as junk from the local horsepistol in a remodel/upgrade of some sort. One big horizontal tank, with two overhead pads on it, each of which held a single cylinder, 1 hp compressor, and each had its own 1HP 3 phase 230 volt Dayton motor that spun very freely and had no endplay, so since the bearing numbers were on the label, I have to assume ball bearing. I offered him 50 bucks for both of them. Next thing I knew, he was dragging out the cutting torch because the bolts were rusted and hard to get to, so both are sitting on my garage floor right now. I have company, 2 of my boys will be in Sunday thru Tuesday this next week, so we'll have to make a trip, maybe two, to the rifle range, but if I can find a round tuit before then, I'll have both of them clipleaded to that 1.5 HP rated inverter & see how they like running a bit faster than 60 hz for 1750 revs. In other words, I found a motor, and with luck a spare that I can run with linuxcnc for rigid tapping and such on this Sheldon. One more problem solved, although I may have to build a lock pin of some sort to keep from unscrewing the chuck with a quick reverse. And now I need to find where to put an encoder on it. More shade tree engineering I think. So things are looking up at a bit better angle. ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
