Brad93
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If he bought the proper roller kit and has a VFD that not too bad. Looks single phase though.
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graffian
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Don't they teach you how to spell up north.
James1979
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I was thinking that. Some of the proper wheels are £100+ each. One reason why my build is ‘ongoing’!
You are a very very lucky person - not because you got a Sealey grinder, because it still works....
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For your delectation, note I have removed the original Picador grinding wheels (yes they used to sell this as a grinding kit!) and put on the wheels you see here
Built in 1988 using a washing machine motor and whatever was at hand.....
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When I was a boy my dad had something very much like that, but with two major differences:
1) it had grinding wheels
2) it had an olde fashioned bakelite light switch in front of one of the wheels to turn it on and off
(five points to anyone who can see where this is going...)
The grind dust would pile up behind the switch and one day I complained that I was getting a tingle every time I turned it on or off. My dad scoffed, saying "it's bakelite - plastic doesn't conduct electricity!".
At least he did until he tried it and got a shock himself!
The grinding dust was hard packed into the back of the (open!) switch and came all the way round the front, effectively making the entire pile live.
Lucky I was the canary in the coalmine rather than it going up in flames. And, of course, there wasn't an earth wire within 20ft of any of it!
This is old Sealey stuff, made in the EU & not China and decent quality.
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Back when washing machine motors were easily reusable for other purposes - unlike the motors of todays washers !
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Mine claims to have a digital inverter controlled motor... I'm wondering if that could be reused complete!
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Possibly but some of those inverter controlled washing machines have the motor integral to the drum, and similar diameter.
Yep. A couple of random pictures off ebay of a "direct drive" motor.
I mean that doesn't mean you couldn't use it...but the uses would be limited!
The Fisher and Paykel Smartdrive washer motors can be rewired as generators for micro hydro or wind power. Look up Marty T on YouTube, as he has some videos recently on building a micro hydro generator for basically free.
