Start capacitor voltage rating?

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They make this neat tool called, IIRC, a "router". Works pretty well for stuff like that.

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When the pandemic is over we're all going to visit you and bring back as many chucks and 3 phases as we can fit in our carry on....

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Are you able to rotate it around the vertical spindle so that the weight of the motor is over the body of the mill rather than the table? I'd be concerned...

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Exactly....

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Note that is does not take much on the draw bar to tighten it! No need to crank down like Hulk, that only makes it more stubborn when the time comes to...

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I did exactly this and it worked for me. The only reasonable adapter I found had a tang on it. I have a slightly-less-than-the-inside-of-the-spindle dowel*...

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I see three distinct functions here. It might be helpful to consider and even organize things that way.

1) What my mom would have called...

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Perhaps I should not be, but I was a bit surprised since it seemed to be fine quite recently. But yes, it could well be that it just went beyond it's...

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I have a 2 hp single phase motor that I was planning to use for my horizontal band saw project. A recently as a couple of weeks ago I tested it out to...

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That contact at the top of the right hand picture does not look very happy. If a replacement is not available you'll want to at the very least file/sand/clean...

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Hard to see, but in the photo it looks to me like red and black and connected to the same connector. Usually, "L1" and "L2" refer...

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So if the cracked inductor core was the culprit, the question becomes "what would cause it to crack?". Physical abuse seems a bit too specifically...

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They all look designed for a human operator inside the suit. I guess that was Hollywood's available technology at the time.

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Yes, curious that one of the inductors fried but not the other. Also, I'm wondering that there was not something in place to shut it down completely before...

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Oh, for shame! You have lead us all down the garden path of inappropriate suggestions! (Sounds like a fun project, though...)...

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Not a telescope maker, but I think that if what you care about is function rather than "looks", then it has to a) hold the lenses in correct...

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Please. I spent years developing software to run on Windows, run Linux at home, and I find Microsoft as annoying as anyone, but you can't legitimately...

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I can imagine rigging up something like a (possibly hydraulic) follower to move the cross slide back and forth with each revolution of the work.

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I would not trust a magnet to hold gears for a thread dial. It would not have to slip much at all to be worse than useless.

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I've been hoping for a parking meter to come up, to discourage people from taking up the limited parking space in front of our house. Or maybe make a...