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Did you get the whole thing?

Wire harness ?

frame with motor mounts?

 

 

Singer 66, Chi Chi Patcher, Rex 26-188, singer 29k62 , 2-needles

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3 minutes ago, Frodo said:

Did you get the whole thing?

Wire harness ?

frame with motor mounts?

 

yup the whole shebang. i'll be taking it apart tomorrow morning.

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stripped it down this morning It has a lot of good parts, nice rollers and bearing, speakers, 2 hp motor. 

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5 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

 2 hp motor. 

That's why I wondered about adapting these to sewing machines. 2hp vs 1/2 or 3/4. You could sew a new fender on your car.

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2 hours ago, AlZilla said:

That's why I wondered about adapting these to sewing machines. 2hp vs 1/2 or 3/4. You could sew a new fender on your car.

Oh yea and with the fly wheel on this thing it wouldn't stop at the fender lol. A guy could build a line shaft say at the back of a table and power multiple tools.

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Some washing machine motors have a shaft that sticks out on both ends

Fun fun fun

use an old singer bobbin winding assembly as a clutch pulley

when you engage the pulley like you were going to thread a bobbin, the belt tightens on the second shaft

 

 

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Considering you can buy a DC servo for $200 it doesn't make much economic sense.   It could be a fun project.  I mounted a "Sailrite" worker B to my Singer 211.   It worked pretty great but wasn't as convenient as a conventional servo motor.  

What I'm seeing more and more is people re-purposing DC sewing servo's to drill presses and small lathes.  They're compact, powerful and cheap.  Lots of torque from a low RPM. 

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3 minutes ago, Quade said:

Considering you can buy a DC servo for $200 it doesn't make much economic sens

Sure it does.  Free vs $150 - $200 makes all kinds of sense.

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That would depend on a persons capabilities to first get the free treadmill motor then install it in a way that works and doesn't look or work like a rube goldberg job.

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Sure it does.  Free vs $150 - $200 makes all kinds of sense.

Nothing is "free".   It took me 15 minutes to mounts up a servo and be ready to go.   Your "free" treadmill motor costs disassembly time, time to hook up speed control. Time to fab up mounts.  You might need a speed reduced to keep the RPM's on the treadmill motor up because many DC motors depend on RPM's to run the cooling fan fast enough.  You'll need some hookup for the pedal.   

From my perspective, it's  a mistake to discount "time" as part of the cost. 

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't do it. It sounds like fun.  Just that it won't necessarily cost less when you're done. 

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