What Did You Buy Today?

[woodchucker]

Same here. I love mine. Only wish I could do dual shield flux core with it. Just not enough amps really.

Why not? Isn't it just adding gas to a flux core wire? Does it really require more amps? Flux core runs hot to begin with.

 

[woodchucker]

Thanks! It’s the same model a friend was teaching me to weld with. He does some pretty big scale stuff so it should be more than capable enough for what I’ll be using it for

How do you weld with open toed shoes? Splatter will burn like crazy. Also those don't look like cotton socks?????? Burn hazard...
Take care of your feet.. as someone who has gone through lots of **** with their feet, I can tell you that when your feet aren't doing well, you aren't doing well.

 

[NCjeeper]

I was told to run .045 dual shield I would need more amps than the 210 could deliver. This info is from several welders that do it for a living.

 

[woodchucker]

I was told to run .045 dual shield I would need more amps than the 210 could deliver. This info is from several welders that do it for a living.

Ok I didn't know that. I thought it was just adding gas.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

How do you weld with open toed shoes? Splatter will burn like crazy. Also those don't look like cotton socks?????? Burn hazard...
Take care of your feet.. as someone who has gone through lots of **** with their feet, I can tell you that when your feet aren't doing well, you aren't doing well.

I think I mentioned in the original post that they’re weld proximity sensors. If I go oww then I’m standing too close. Didn’t have any problems in an hour or so of welding, though I did take a chunk out of a knuckle with a grinder. That hurt.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

Two fantastic deals today:

First was about twenty each 2x4 and 2x6, between six and ten feet long, a bunch of osb, some nice 1” thick wood, three insulation panels and around four bags of r19 batts. Plus a case of expanding foam, some spray foam and gun, and a HF spray painting gun. Ask for $40! No pics though

Second was a fair bit further away, but an incredible deal. NASCAR team shop had moved and they were clearing out some stuff left behind. Sheet (including titanium!), solid bar up to 2.5”, scads of tubing and a bunch of tooling. All for $210 and a tank of gas

 

[GrifterGuru]

Not a recent purchase (well, within the last 6 weeks) but only just got my hands on it. Octagonal ER32 Collet Block, courtesy of a friend and a favour.

Just waiting on the dodecagon one now (12 sided)

 

[woodchucker]

Two fantastic deals today:

First was about twenty each 2x4 and 2x6, between six and ten feet long, a bunch of osb, some nice 1” thick wood, three insulation panels and around four bags of r19 batts. Plus a case of expanding foam, some spray foam and gun, and a HF spray painting gun. Ask for $40! No pics though

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[Gnpenning]

I completely understand the corded, air, battery debate. For me I'm use specific. There is a time and a place for everything. So I keep my options open.

For work, I use battery tools all day. At home I may use air or corded or battery depending on I feel is the best choice. . On some work projects I take a corded tool and use for less than 10 minutes. Some would argue the need for 10 minutes. I'm fine with that and will allow them to use what they want as I will.

As mentioned it isn't a one size fits all.

 

[FliesLikeABrick]

We're tired of fighting our cheap import planer when working with rough-sawn wood on various projects. The feed rollers slip, it takes 2 of us to push/pull so the planer can feed.... so I started watching auctions for big old planers...

Found one around 2.5 hours away from here, but it was a 24" powermatic, 3000 lbs and 10hp.... I think that would have created too many logistic challenges, from transporting it with my small truck to what floor it's going to be on, to the power requirements and VFD to drive it.

I found this 16" powermatic ~7 hours from home, only 1150-1200 lbs. Got it for cheaper than expected, I think for a few reasons:

• no pictures of the motor or machine nameplates in the auction listing, because they're missing from both
• The surface rust on the table is unpolished, indicating it has not been used for longer than most else in the same shop
• Model number of the machine, motor voltage/power/etc, working condition were all unknown
• it doesn't have the knife grinder which I believe makes these machines appreciably more desirable

For a couple hundred bucks and a weekend of driving, I am up for this even if it turns into a project -- but at first glance I think it is healthy




At home I unloaded it in the garage and was able to lower it onto a dolly that had previiously held two small parts drawers. Weighed it, ~1150 lbs. Those drawers now sit straight on the floor under a bench, so this dolly has been available. 100% out of coincidence, it fits the base casting of the planer *like a glove*. 1/4" larger wouldn't have hurt, to know it wasn't being grabbed by the taper in the angle iron frame, but it does look to be sitting completely down inside.

I needed to confirm that this was 208/3ph and not 440v/3ph since some other equipment at the auction were higher voltage. This is a single-voltage motor (only 3 leads coming out), and zero nameplate....

The voltage I was able to confirm by looking at what coil was in the magnetic starter. It ended up being a dual-voltage magnetic coil, but the current coil wiring according to the diagram is for 208/230v

I took a bunch of measurements, narrowed it down to either a NEMA frame 184T or 213T TEFC. It could be 5hp or 7.5hp, but the output shaft is 1.125" so that seems likely it is 5hp, most 7.5hp motors seem to be 1.375" shaft.

As far as the rest of the motor configuration:

• It looks like it is 2-pole, the planer should be around 4800rpm at the cutter head and based on the drive/driven pulley ratio that would put the motor around 3400 rpm give or take
• As far as FLA current, the heaters in the magnetic starter are 14.2a so I'll use 14a as the FLA current when setting up the VFD

I think that gives me enough information to fully and safely configure the VFD.

VFD should be here next week so I can test this out. Once I know that's good, I think I am likely to put a subpanel in our woodshop instead of a larger home run conduit and conductors just for this. A couple sizes larger, and I'll just pull all the other branch circuits back from the main panel to the subpanel and use the existing conduit for the subpanel feed instead.