If its anything like mine it has a proprietary face mounted motor. You
could change the motor by having a 3/8 or 1/2" thick steel mounting plate
made up to adapt the new face mounted motor to the saw... Or you could make
or buy a phase converter. I made one myself from an old 10hp 3 phase motor
and capacitors, I found it fairly easy to make but your mileage may vary.
You can buy a static converter from Grizzly for reasonably cheap.


"oddjobboy" wrote in message
om...
Anyone had any experience of dropping a new single phase motor into
something like the old 10" Wadkin I've been offered for notalot?
It seems like too good an offer to pass up, but I'm concerned that
there'll be more to the three-phase to single phase conversion than
simply exchanging the motor. I guess there's all the switches etc to
consider as well.

I've done a little research on the Net into phase converters but it
seems a bit like overkill buying an inverter for just the one piece of
kit. And they're not cheap either...