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Default South Bend Lathe Information Needed

Grant Erwin wrote:
It's most probably a single phase motor. I suggest you put on a plug and
give it a spin. It sounds like you're about to scrap the motor anyway,
so you have nothing to lose.


Yeah, you think I could try it with the series lightbulb trick in case
it's shorted?


Doesn't the motor have a nameplate? A couple of motor nameplate tricks:
if you cannot read the nameplate, first thing to try is to see if you


I couldn't find a nameplate at all. The red plate just has hookup
information, not nameplate rating sort of information.


Thanks,
Jason