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hello to all from east Texas,
without too much detail i finally got my Harbor Freight mill back from my ex when she sold the house i paid for after the divorce. Her boyfriend and my daughters ex husband decided, in a drunken stupor, that they were going to pick it up off the work bench and load it on the tailgate of his truck. they were so drunk they both must have believed they were superman. of course the mill hit the floor HARD! when it hit the floor they decided to drag it with a chain to the street. in the course of their drunken actions they managed to break all the hand control knobs and ripped off the reverser switch and the plastic box on the motor that housed the starting capacitor and ripped out all the wiring connections inside the box. the rest of the machine seems to have survived the ordeal. what i need and cannot seem to find is a working diagram of the inside connections for the motor. the labeling on the wires coming out of the motor are good. the wiring block is good and matched up to the wire labeling correctly but there are 4 metal straps that i cannot tell where they went. these straps appear the be used for 120/220 voltage selection. if someone has one of these mills operating on 120 volts and can send me a photo of the inside of the box on the motor and the value of the starting capacitor i would appreciate it very much. many companies other than HFT use this mill such as Grizzly and Enco but none of them use the same type "strapping" inside their connection box and so far no one has a new replacement motor part listed.
Thanks, Ken
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without too much detail i finally got my Harbor Freight mill back from my ex when she sold the house i paid for after the divorce. Her boyfriend and my daughters ex husband decided, in a drunken stupor, that they were going to pick it up off the work bench and load it on the tailgate of his truck. they were so drunk they both must have believed they were superman. of course the mill hit the floor HARD! when it hit the floor they decided to drag it with a chain to the street. in the course of their drunken actions they managed to break all the hand control knobs and ripped off the reverser switch and the plastic box on the motor that housed the starting capacitor and ripped out all the wiring connections inside the box. the rest of the machine seems to have survived the ordeal. what i need and cannot seem to find is a working diagram of the inside connections for the motor. the labeling on the wires coming out of the motor are good. the wiring block is good and matched up to the wire labeling correctly but there are 4 metal straps that i cannot tell where they went. these straps appear the be used for 120/220 voltage selection. if someone has one of these mills operating on 120 volts and can send me a photo of the inside of the box on the motor and the value of the starting capacitor i would appreciate it very much. many companies other than HFT use this mill such as Grizzly and Enco but none of them use the same type "strapping" inside their connection box and so far no one has a new replacement motor part listed.
Thanks, Ken
