wrote: (clip) I looked up the rpm's for the lathe
and they were between 200 and 400. The motor is spinning at 11oo rpm,s.
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All these figures seem wrong. Lathes always have a speed range, not a
rating, and no old Craftsman lathe would have speeds that low. It is rare
to run across an AC motor that turns that slow.