Good. The asphalt or whatever is just from the Cap meltdown, I'm sure.

Not sure how you're wired, but mostly the cap starts (direction), and kicks
back in if the centrifugal switch gets tripped at low rpm. On the cap start
/ cap run types, you'll normally have two caps for a mock 3-phase.

"Bertie Pittman" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:50:42 -0400, Bertie Pittman
wrote:
I was using my wife's Jet Mini 6 speed lathe today and the motor got
very hot.

Thank all of you that responded to my question about the Jet motor
problem. Those of you that were suspecting the capacitor were right.

The smoke was coming from the capacitor because it was melting. It
also appeared to be leaking some kind of substance that had melted
and looked like hardened chewing gum.