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Found this old South Bend lathe and it followed me home
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Thanks, I was thinking that maybe there was some kind of disconnect switch that may have been in-between the motor and the drum switch but if so it was nowhere to be found. Let me ask though, are your wires pigtailed at the motor? Thinking about it though if there was some kind of disconnect, I would think that it would be between the plug and the motor. When I go back out, I'll snap a pic of what wiring I see. I need to replace all the wiring anyway so I may as well take that maze of mess where it is pigtailed together apart to see what wires are connected to what.
Is that pic of the two switches a before and after pic?
I have seen those disconnects like that and I may even have one laying around someplace. I put something similar to that on the phase converter I built for my old Bickford super service drill press I have. So, your lathe is three phase.
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Yes mine is 3 phase
OPPS!! dyslexia, ADD,+ PTSD will do it to ya.
I pulled that ball of wires right at the motor apart last night and can see that there are 4 wires coming out of the motor. None of them are marked. I made a crude drawing, ( please don't laugh ) of how they wired it. Two of the motor legs connect to the black wire on the cord with the plug. The other two connect to the black wire in the short cord. The white wires coming out of both cords are connected which makes a nice big loop. The short cord is the exact length from the motor connections to where the switch is. As I said there were no screws in the outside strip on the switch just three screws in the center three.
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a motor plate would be better. somewhere on that motor is a wiring diagram.
Nawh, I've looked all over. The motor is probably the one that came with the machine and the wire is a little stiff and I'm afraid to pull on them much. It's a Century motor, and it appears to be in pretty good shape. I can see the brushes and there is plenty of brush material left. Where the wires were spliced you can tell it just didn't happen a short time ago and looks like it could have been done from the factory.
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That's a repulsion motor if it has brushes.
I don't know a thing about them.
the tag says both repulsion and induction repulsion for start, induction for run... not even going to try on this one.
Mark may be able to help.
That's a repulsion motor if it has brushes.
I don't know a thing about them.
the tag says both repulsion and induction repulsion for start, induction for run... not even going to try on this one.
Mark may be able to help.