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New Project for winter
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Square_peg
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The stone looks good - not chipped up nor out of round. That'll be a fine grinder.
Win,
If you already have a low geared motor then good on ya'. If your searching for one give me a shout. There are quite a few orphans at our farm but they'd need a few minutes of testing to make sure. If all you can find is to fast even with a pulley exchange then remember you can easily tone it down with a voltage regulator. Just remember to provide an accessory means of cooling the coil wraps. It's not the loss of voltage that heats the older motors up it's the higher torque demand combined with the internal fan spinning much, much slower.
Oh, last piece of free advice (bout' what it's worth, yes?). Consider removing the motor's existing end plate, take out the fan and clutch (if it has a clutch) and take a very fine file to the fan blade edges. I thought it hogwash when I first heard of it but many years ago my Uncle, master electrician and a genius with small engines, showed me on a meter the gains in efficiency by sharpening those blades. Wouldn't have thought much of it until I saw the results with 5 minutes of file work.
Looking forward to seeing that old boy doing it's job...!
If you already have a low geared motor then good on ya'. If your searching for one give me a shout. There are quite a few orphans at our farm but they'd need a few minutes of testing to make sure. If all you can find is to fast even with a pulley exchange then remember you can easily tone it down with a voltage regulator. Just remember to provide an accessory means of cooling the coil wraps. It's not the loss of voltage that heats the older motors up it's the higher torque demand combined with the internal fan spinning much, much slower.
Oh, last piece of free advice (bout' what it's worth, yes?). Consider removing the motor's existing end plate, take out the fan and clutch (if it has a clutch) and take a very fine file to the fan blade edges. I thought it hogwash when I first heard of it but many years ago my Uncle, master electrician and a genius with small engines, showed me on a meter the gains in efficiency by sharpening those blades. Wouldn't have thought much of it until I saw the results with 5 minutes of file work.
Looking forward to seeing that old boy doing it's job...!
Square_peg
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Mako20ft..Thats good advice, I am attempting keep it as original as I can. Never knew that about the fan blades.
garry3..No marks on any of it so far.
The guy I got it from was the son of owner. He passed 5 years ago at 98. Son says it was there at the as long as he can remember. 45-60 years old.
I am going to work on the treadle and the legs to get it stable.
Thinking about getting water to it and not make a mess some kind of tank. I imagine that's what rotted the legs.
If any one had a link to anything on grindstones would appreciate it.
garry3..No marks on any of it so far.
The guy I got it from was the son of owner. He passed 5 years ago at 98. Son says it was there at the as long as he can remember. 45-60 years old.
I am going to work on the treadle and the legs to get it stable.
Thinking about getting water to it and not make a mess some kind of tank. I imagine that's what rotted the legs.
If any one had a link to anything on grindstones would appreciate it.
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Instead of a water trough you might try setting up a drip can for it. That kind of setup is more compatible with that method vs. a bath system. Nice score! 
Something to consider. In my company (I am a General Contractor) we do a reasonable amount of custom tile work. With a lot of the pattern work, the installer (sometimes me) has to grind shapes with the 10" Diamond Blade. Didn't take long for me to realize we were burning up the small pumps used for wetting the blades. Typical to most tile saws the water is recirculated in a tub below the blade and gets pretty murky real quick.
I invested all of $10 in PVC to put a connector on the tub drain compatible with a garden hose. We will fill 5 gallon buckets with clean tap water for the pump to sit down into, purchased cheap clear 3/8" ID to extend the range where the water bucket with pump can be located and finally, keep a cheap 50' length of hose for the drain. Solves a few issues at once with this. Always clean water makes the pump happy (at $38 from Grainger that's no small thing), always cold water makes the pump VERY happy and with the garden hose discharge I can often times run the waste out to the street. If you've spent much time with tile you'll know that the dirty water with just one cut stains the hell out of garage floors, driveways, etc... It could be a year of rain and those puddle marks will still be there.
Just a little food for thought.
I invested all of $10 in PVC to put a connector on the tub drain compatible with a garden hose. We will fill 5 gallon buckets with clean tap water for the pump to sit down into, purchased cheap clear 3/8" ID to extend the range where the water bucket with pump can be located and finally, keep a cheap 50' length of hose for the drain. Solves a few issues at once with this. Always clean water makes the pump happy (at $38 from Grainger that's no small thing), always cold water makes the pump VERY happy and with the garden hose discharge I can often times run the waste out to the street. If you've spent much time with tile you'll know that the dirty water with just one cut stains the hell out of garage floors, driveways, etc... It could be a year of rain and those puddle marks will still be there.
Just a little food for thought.