If the cap is good it may still be charged, discharge it before connecting to a multimeter and for your safety. If the cap is bad, you won't get continuity, it will show as open. Sometimes they pop or swell so if you immediately see signs of that you know the answer.
Unfortunately it can't be found at a common hardware store. Mcmaster carries them if you need it next day. If the cap didn't blow up, you should be able to see the value printed on it so you buy the new one (micro farad / μF).
Well, it was running and just stopped. However, I believe the motor was overloaded (to deep a cut) and the capacitor may have been jogging open and closed? I could hear it clicking off and on like a start up but since I know nothing much about motors, I didn't really give it much though.You were making chips and the motor just stopped? Or, the mill was off and you tried to re-start it?
If it was already running and then just stopped, then the start circuit wouldn't be to blame.
Yea, I've been putting this mill through the paces to figure out what it can and can't handle. Guess I got 1 answer anyway. I was cutting a 11" railroad rail to make an anvil for my bench. I don't have a face mill or even a decent fly cutter so I was using a .5" carbide endmill taking about .100 and I think it was to deep and I was feeding to fast. Probably my own fault, lesson learned.Thanks for the reply Finster. just trying to understand how yours failed so hopefully mine doesn't suffer the same fate.
Yea, I've been putting this mill through the paces to figure out what it can and can't handle. Guess I got 1 answer anyway. I was cutting a 11" railroad rail to make an anvil for my bench. I don't have a face mill or even a decent fly cutter so I was using a .5" cobalt endmill taking about .100 and I think it was to deep and I was feeding to fast. Probably my own fault, lesson learned.
Here is one that may be close to you? http://www.ebay.com/itm/132126198615?ul_noapp=true.1 with a 8520??? Definitely too much with the rail. Hopefully you just blew the capacitor. I'm thinking you kicked out of run and forced the capacitor to kick in. Which you should have recognized way before you smoked it. I'm taking that 8520 away from you... you can't be trusted with it...
I've been looking myself for one for a while.