"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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| I owned a 4x6 for about 10 years and never changed the speed, not once.
I'd go
| ahead and use that motor until it burns out if it does. The thing about
Chinese
| motors isn't that they're all bad, they aren't. It's that the quality
control is
| so bad, so you don't know if you're getting a good one or not. If you get
lucky
| and get a good one you won't brag about it to your buddies but it will
work for
| you for many years.
|
| I would further argue against retrofitting a 4x6 with a 3-phase motor. A
4x6 saw
| is a great tool but it is limited and once you get used to it you will
| automatically notice ads for larger nicer horizontal cutoff saws.
Eventually one
| will come along at an unbeatable price (I got a decent Wellsaw 58B for
$150 at
| an estate sale) and then you will be looking to sell your 4x6 and at that
point
| a 3-phase motor would be a huge negative.
|
| GWE

Excellent point. I hadn't considered the saw beyond acquiring it.