On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:58:59 -0400, dave
wrote:

have a saw (unisaw, actually) I need to run. need to rip some 2x4's, to
a few various widths)

if I put a BRAND new blade on the saw, 24 tooth, what do you suppose
would happen if I try to start the saw up (being a manually-fed saw, it
starts with 'no load' of course) then rip those 2x4's with it?

I realize I "should" have a bigger rotary converter for the task (or
change the saw to a smaller 3 hp motor), but, as a 'stopgap measure',
might this work, or, uhh, what?

I have no -other- three-phase machines here (at the garage of my house)
I can start up on my ol' arco HD-3 model rotary-converter, either...

thanks for tips, ideas, and WAGS on this one, guys

toolie


It may...may may start up, abit slowly. Cut normally until the magic
smoke comes o ut of the windings of your converter.

I did exactly that with my Clausing 15" 1501 lathe, on a 5 hp commercial
rotary converter. 7.5hp motor...... Took me 3 hours finding the burned
in two wire in the converter and repairing it. Then I mounted a 7.5hp
VFD on the lathe and havent had any issues since then.

Shrug


Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
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