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Table traverse for Chinese mill.
Hi Guys,
My Chinese mill does not have a motorised table traverse ! Its a pain, in more ways than one, at times to stand there winding the table back and forth. So I thought that I would see if I could design and build one from scratch. With this in mind I decided to have a trawl around my local scrapyards for something to use and came across a suitable car windscreen wiper motor. I found this one from a wrecked Nissan Micra. I grabbed this one because it was very easy to get it off the chassis bulkhead. Four hex head bolts and it fell out and the power connections were a very convenient plug and socket attached to the back of the gearbox. At this point I didn't know what condition it was in, only that it was quite clean with only a little rust on the motor case where the paint had flaked off.
When I chose it I didn't realise that it was a two speed motor, but on testing it, it soon became obvious. It also had an intermittent wipe switch built into the gearbox which confused me at first. Anyway it runs quietly in either direction at both speed settings.
The photographs show two views of the motor and gearbox.