Need a big electric motor?

[Bugeyed Earl]

I spotted several of these at the local county surplus store last week:

to give you a sense of scale, it's sitting on a full sized pallet, and those are 2x4's in the foreground. 125 hp would make one hell of a buffer...

 

[dawgee]

awesome compressor motor

 

[MrC1953]

exhaust fan!!

Godspeed
MrC.

 

[Zelatore]

Exhaust fan? Heck, home-brew helicopter!

 

[9C1]

Based on the four wires that motor is 3-phase; and based on the blue color of the shaft I expect it has been run hard and put away wet.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Do you think it would work to replace the motor in my wife's hair dryer. LOL, would probably just blow her head off.

 

[Zeke]

Based on the four wires that motor is 3-phase; and based on the blue color of the shaft I expect it has been run hard and put away wet.

There's overspray on the bearing carrier or whatever you want to call the end plate.

$750 insn't chump change. What does a motor like that cost new?

 

[jeff000]

That's a small motor. Well actually it's large for only 125hp.
I work on 1200hp motors all the time that aren't much physically larger. They just need lots of juice, lol.

 

[930dreamer]

My 30 hp idler for a rotary phase converter. Click on pic for video.

 

[Aruba1]

Wow, could be the ultimate go-kart motor.