70 year olf GE 3 hp single phase motor wiring inquiry

[Danl]

Thanks for your insight, Jerry. It appears that someone, for whatever reason, replaced the little #8 aluminum number wire tag with a #6 tag on my motor....

[Danl]

Thanks for your help. I do not need to reverse direction on my compressor, but the schematic you found might just help me decipher this.

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[Danl]

I was given this old GE 3 hp motor by my Dad, who was running it on 110 volts, and would like to run my compressor on 220 volts. It is a Model 5KCS225XB10A,...

[Danl]

I agree. These things can print gears inside of total enclosures, but, being PLA or PET plastic, they don't compare to steel or cast, machined gears....

[Danl]

My son showed me one thing these printers can do that do not look like they would be easy to make in many of our hobby machine shops out of metal: rectangular...

[Danl]

Oldest son gave me his Prusa i3 MK2S printer, works fine, has Raspberry Pi computer & camera as well as a reel of PET and PLA filament. Lots of fun....

[Danl]

Agree 100% with this. I've read some RPN discussions that equate the order of writing down basic math problems on paper with this notation, ie., to add...