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I have a 20 inch planer that has a 5 hp, 3Ph, 230/460v motor in it. I
was supposed to receive a single phase, but there was a mixup, and
since I am in a 3rd world country, exchange is difficult at best.

Is it possible to rewire this to run off of a single phase?
No, unless you can find someone to replace the field coil with one which
will work on single phase power, can find the correct start and run
capacitors, and can find the switch that disables the start capacitor.
Doing all that would cost far more than a single phase capacitor start
capacitor run motor.
Jim