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20th December 2010, 09:33 PM #1
Treadmill motor?
Evening all,
Whilst doing a clean out at work I found a treadmill motor and was thinking it could look good on my older lathe here. I didn't take down any details but it's a 240v and I remember seeing something about running at 1700 rpm. Getting it set up to run variable speed should be fairly simple too. There's 5 wires coming out of the motor (+/- & earth) and I'm guessing the other two are to control the speed. These machines usually run at between 2 & 3 horsepower which is a truckload more than I have available on the TL1200 I'm playing on at the moment.
So now I will hand it over to the forum for thoughts & ideas...
good idea/bad idea or other?
Regards,
Corbs
The motor is off a Nautilus treadmill but can't remember the model at the moment.
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20th December 2010, 10:06 PM #2
Here's one: https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/var...ersion-124008/
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21st December 2010, 07:17 AM #3
Thanks Joe, looks like it has potential for a metal lathe but doesn't look like many people have had success on a wood one. The motor isn't going to cost me anything so I will bring it home anyway and have a play.
CorbsIt's only a mistake if you don't learn from it.
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