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What did you do in your garage today..?

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Mad Mike said:
I just brought home a wood lathe for my garage shop, it’s got a 1hp 3ph electric motor (220 or 575). I only have single phase in my garage. I need to resolve the power, I’d also like to upgrade to a speed controller so I don’t need to move belts.

I don’t want to kluge wire a 3ph to work on single phase. I can swap the motor to single phase and add a speed controller and rev counter. The other thought is to keep the 3ph and add a VFD.

Leaning toward the VFD as it’s cheap, easy, and they come with integrated speed controllers. It looks simple enough, and I don’t see a torque loss - am I missing anything?
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Some vfds can convert one phase to 3 ph, there has to be torque loss (or huge draw as you need more amps than required for single phase at same hp to cover inefficiency of phase shifting).
 
I think it's better than the one I'm about to put together (but I'm not stopping now). I believe the fins are all intact. I'll check.
For sure It could be for sale.
 
Lash said:
If the head has all the fins and is in decent shape I’d be interested in buying it. Give you more than $10 !
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About a dime sized piece missing at the bottom - not too noticable. Glad to reflect that in the price. Is that a show stopper or should I try and post a pic?
 
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I stand corrected. These were not too big. The broken fin is in the first pic - at the right. The exhaust collars are a bit banged up.
 
Started mocking up the latest project. Including the dual drilled discs. They're not CNC perfect but that's OK because I want it to have an old's cool built in a shed feel. Still hoping to hook up with @Wingboy to borrow his hone and give them a final clean up. IMG_0713.JPGIMG_0703.JPG
 
Draining the oil on the snowblower. May try adjusting the highway pegs again.
Switched to regular gas on the bike, and it seems o.k. so far (the recommended gas is in European units which don't directly convert to N.A. units, as far as I can tell, so there's some trial and error involved).
 
Had a spare sub and amp. Added them to garage system. Meh. I can definitely annoy people in the house more now. Still have to connect a few more speakers that I put in place but didn't hook up yet. When they are hooked up, it will have 4 paradigm towers (placed out of the way, not optimally) with 90 watts each and a 12" sub with 500 watts (Amp could go up to 1300 watts if desired but that is unnecessary).
 
GreyGhost said:
Had a spare sub and amp. Added them to garage system. Meh. I can definitely annoy people in the house more now. Still have to connect a few more speakers that I put in place but didn't hook up yet. When they are hooked up, it will have 4 paradigm towers (placed out of the way, not optimally) with 90 watts each and a 12" sub with 500 watts (Amp could go up to 1300 watts if desired but that is unnecessary).
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I used to shake the house with one watt. Soon I'll be getting hearing aids. If it's a clean watt that's more than you need.
 
Baggsy said:
I used to shake the house with one watt. Soon I'll be getting hearing aids. If it's a clean watt that's more than you need.
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Sub amp is clean. Leftover amp from a previous life and this sub can't even touch the available reserve power. Towers are driven by an underwhelming (as expected) Sony home theater amp than I got for free. No clipping at full power but surprised that you can get to full power without volume getting out of control. I'll check if I have a crossover in my rack of abandoned gear and if so may convert the garage system to a wallmount rack. Trying not to have anything unnecessary on the floor as the floor easily becomes chaos.

As for hearing aids, I normally keep things under control with the volume. I just have some parts sitting around so I might as well hook them up and have lots in reserve instead of driving small stuff hard.
 
I'm going through the toolbox again starting to reorganize and clean things up. I picked up a bunch of Tool Grid (which is made by a company in Burlington) and I was able to condense all my screwdrivers down into one drawer, and freed up a smaller drawer for my nut drivers that have been hidden away for a while.

I'm super happy with how the tool gird looks, not happy with how tall it is. I had to take up one of deep drawer for screw drivers, and relocate all my hammers to the garage floor for the time being. But I've got a solution for that.

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48Connor said:
I'm going through the toolbox again starting to reorganize and clean things up. I picked up a bunch of Tool Grid (which is made by a company in Burlington) and I was able to condense all my screwdrivers down into one drawer, and freed up a smaller drawer for my nut drivers that have been hidden away for a while.

I'm super happy with how the tool gird looks, not happy with how tall it is. I had to take up one of deep drawer for screw drivers, and relocate all my hammers to the garage floor for the time being. But I've got a solution for that.

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After:
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How tall does the drawer need to be for the grid, and isn't the left drawer the same one in the before/after pics?
 
That's some tool porn right there.

May I ask what the hell was wrong with the before?

I think if I posted a picture of my drawers or tool bench, I may be banned from GTAM.

Looks great. Is the tool grid system expensive? I have been meaning to organize my tool chest and workbench for.......... far too long now.
 
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