Dink Report post Posted February 8, 2008 I cannot decide the correct place to post this so I will try here. Here is the question My bell knife splitter is on about a 4' long table with the splitter to one end and the motor toward the other. I need to replace the motor, and in interest of saving space I would like to shorten the table, and mount the motor directly under the skiver. In order to do this I would have to flip the motor around, and that in turn would revers the rotation direction. Will it work like this? would it hurt anything? Does this make any sense? Thanks for any feed back you may have. Dink Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rgerbitz Report post Posted February 9, 2008 I'm not much of an electrician, but I think most electric motors can be rewired fairly easly to run in either direction. Maybe yours can't, don't know. Good luck, Rob Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bruce johnson Report post Posted February 9, 2008 Dink, I thought I replied to this earlier, but appears that my dog ate the homework. My clutch motors have had a switch to reverse the direction of rotation. If you just swap ends and don't change the rotation, I would suspect the feedwheel would be going in reverse. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dink Report post Posted February 10, 2008 Thanks Dink, I thought I replied to this earlier, but appears that my dog ate the homework. My clutch motors have had a switch to reverse the direction of rotation. If you just swap ends and don't change the rotation, I would suspect the feedwheel would be going in reverse. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites