AAMCO 7" shaper - motor wiring

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ThinWoodsman

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Picked up an aamco shaper this weekend. It's still set aside for cleaning, but the motor doesn't have a cable.

Any aamco shaper owners out there want to save me some time and tell me which terminal is positive and which is negative?

I haven't looked at the motor that closely. Might even swap it out, it's been in storage and may not even fire up.
 
Thin,

Most machines of this general type and vintage will have a capacitor start single phase AC motor, not a DC one.
 
Without seeing what specific motor you have, it's hard to say for sure how to wire it. Many of those old machines no longer have the original motors. wa5cab is correct, most will have single phase, capacitor start motors. There are many on-line resources to help you with the wiring. Also, it's kind of important to get the motor rotation correct as these machines are designed to have a faster back stroke than the forward stroke.

Ted
 
if you have a picture of your motor, i can help wire it up :grin:
 
heh, I kinda suspected the answer would be "it depends...".

Grabbed a power cable and switch at the h/w store this morning. I'll post a pic or at least motor label info once I get to wiring the thing up. For posterity, if nothing else.
 
I was looking at that one also on craiglist. How much you buy it for if you don't mind me asking?
 
OK, looks pretty straightforward. Positive terminal isn't marked, so have to just do trial-and-error. Manual says motor should be spinning CCW when viewed from the left side of the shaper - presumably the side with the bull gear cover plate that's on your left when facing, not the "shaper's left" which has the pulleys (seeing the reason for "port" and "starboard", yet?).
And that's assuming the motor runs at all. Still have half the casing bolts soaking in kroil, but peering through the vents the coil looks a bit iffy.

Scra99tch said:
How much you buy it for if you don't mind me asking?
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Don't see how disclosing the price would profit me in any way. I know that the seller was a bit put off by lowball offers from CL buyers - I had given him a range of 500-800 based on the photo and his verbal description, and after a week or so he called and said if I was serious to come on by. Even then, he was having second, third, and fourth thoughts on selling it at all. Decent guy; we talked for a bit and poked around the boxes of tooling he's had for years without knowing what some of it was even for.
 
In my mind I thought about 500$ range, as it was not powered. A range of prices works for me as I don't need to know exact amounts. It looks like it would of been a fun little project though. Good luck with it.
 
Forgot the motor plate info, for posterity:

Sunlight Motors
Model S-6849
1/3 HP
115 V
60 cycles
5.4 amps
1750 RPM
Type: SKO
Packard Electric Division
General Motors Corporation
Watten, Ohio
H3?44
5212557
 
Can you post a picture of the motor terminals or junction box wires, a close shot? Then we can go from there
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