Recent content by rayperkins

Temperamental indeed. Sure enough it did not work shortly after being fixed. Not sure what changed, maybe cooled off, maybe solar flares, it wasn't working. I added shims of exactly 2 beer can walls thick on the connection points that did not have JB weld. This was something I thought about...

Fixed. I JB Welded the broken "fingers" and fiddled with it an awful lot, but now it works. It took a lot of alignment attempts, but moving to a more sturdy flat surface seemed to get me a lot closer, then just trying over and over made it go. In the end I didn't need any shims or anything I...

Thanks for the help. Here is a close up of the broken fingers: Here is my hotwire job, bypassing the switch and energizing the primary and start windings: When you say there may not be sufficient clearance, is that between the rotor and stator? Also, should the rotor be magentic? I noticed...

Hello, I am hoping to find help here. Without doing any research I bought what appears to be a 397.19340 grinder via an online auction: http://bid.auctionnation.net/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?anation78/48/1 When I got it the wheels spun freely but when powered on it would make a loud buzzing/humming...