Repairing Workshop Tools/ Machines?

[needsmorecowbel]

Hey guys i picked up a tasty Belt Sander Disk Sander combo with a busted (burnt out) motor today for the cheeky price of $0.00...Has anyone ever looked into motor reconditioning for their damaged or busted machinery (that is assuming that their machinery has broken down)? Or even just replacing motors...is it very cost effective?

http://home.comcast.net/~kvaughn65/disc_belt.jpg

Cheers, Happy belated Australia Day

Stu

[kiwigeo]

If the machine cost you nicks then yes its worth investigating.

[ozwood]

This might help. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... K:MEWAX:IT

a supplier of motors.

[Puff]

The same motor you have is probably in 10,000 plus other machines in Oz from bandsaws through spindle sanders, routers, benchsaws, dropsaws ad infinitum. Google the specs and seek.
They're only worth reco costs if they're kinda wierd specs and your's isn't.

[jeffhigh]

When I burned out my bandsaw motor, I found that motor rewinding started at $350, not including dissasenbly or reassembly.

[duh Padma]

Well Stu...
Re: them belt sander/disk combos, me got tired or buying a new one every two years but it was cheaper than the replacement motors which cost more than a whole new machines list price....

Must have thrown a few in the dump....

Then one day brilliance struck...me pulled the sanding disk off, slapped on a V pulley and a washing machine motor mounted underneath and have never looked back. My 2 year old Delta sander is starting to show signs of the motor ready to give up the ghost so me gonna do the same thing...Yes two sanders...one in the breakout shop and one in the assembly shop.

blessings

[kiwigeo]

If you cant fix the motor theres always this option:

[needsmorecowbel]

The Trade Assistant/ Lackey alternative...But have to make the cage to specs...damn

[Taffy Evans]

This motor on my dust extractor stopped starting on its own a year or so back, start windings I suspect [the switch inside appears ok] so I fitted this pully, start it like my lawn mower, and then push the start button. Cheeper that a new motor or rewind.

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[Lillian]

Taffy that's a cool solution, but how did you figure out that it was the start windings and not the motor itself?

[WaddyT]

Guess that sort of takes care of the remote start situation!

[Taffy Evans]

Hi Lillian, when I pushed the red start button the motor just sat there humming, or turned so slow that it eventualy cut out on the protective overload switch. The mechanical switch in the motor that makes contact with the 'run' windings when the 'start' windings get the motor up the required speed was working ok, so I suspected the start windings. A layman account.

I remember running my first shop built thickness sander on an evaporative [swamp] cooler two speed motor for ten years, with one speed not working ,so I wired up to the other speed.

[Lillian]

Sounds like the capacitor went bad. Yours is a cool solution, no doubt. And its pretty much kid proof too.

[rocket]

Taff,, Do you wear the same Chinese work boots when you start your lawn mower?
Cheers,,,Rod

[Taffy Evans]

Rocket, safety gaurds removed the for clarity.

[rocket]

Yep!