What to use this Electric Motor for?

[Fender1325]

Saved this from the dump. Came from a rarely used ceiling exhaust fan. Not sure what I'll use it for. Ideas?

 

[Fender1325]

Another pic

 

[Codyyy]

I have a similar motor except it has a small 4 blade fan on it. I wanted to make a belt-driven grinder/buffer out of it. A buddy of mine had a setup like that, I thought it was pretty cool to "remote mount" the motor and just have a small pulley at the end of the workbench with the grinding wheel on it.

 

[jakemac]

Grinder, Jigsaw, Disk Sander, Drill Press

 

[organ]

Problem with fan motors is that they depend on the air from the fan for cooling... remove the fan and you may have problems...

 

[Fender1325]

Grinder, Jigsaw, Disk Sander, Drill Press

Jigsaw? This thing weighs at least 15 pounds I bet.

 

[Kracin]

Problem with fan motors is that they depend on the air from the fan for cooling... remove the fan and you may have problems...

.... not necessarily, a lot of the air a fan blade pulls in doesnt even contact the motor. they can run for a long long time in super hot conditions and not even blink. ie 110+ for 24hrs a day. for i don't even know how many years. and the only thing that bats an eye and goes bad is the start/run capacitor.

also if the motor has no rear fan blade for air movement you shouldn't have to worry too much about it overheating unless you are putting an external heat source on it, they will be built from the factory to take a beating.

i've got about 10 single phase .5 and 1hp motors from various things (mostly fans, some tossed and completely new baldor motors) at work and plan to make a few nice shop tools like a belt sander setup, disc sander, etc. not to mention having a bunch of super nice industrial shop fans to move air when working .

 

[Kracin]

Jigsaw? This thing weighs at least 15 pounds I bet.

i think he meant more like a stationary recip/scroll saw setup

 

[jakemac]

Jigsaw? This thing weighs at least 15 pounds I bet.

Sorry, I meant Scrollsaw.