Stationary belt sander
Stationary belt sander
My Dad always saved the motors from washers and dryers. Some of his creations were disc sander , table saw and a wood lathe.
HappyAndy wrote: Didn't someone here make a welder from a pair of old motors? I recall there was a thread about "what things have you fabbed" and who ever it was that posted the homemade welder was declared the winner by virtue of having fabbed the thing used to fabb everything else.
You can hack up a big alternator (to manually control the current) into a pretty decent DC tig/stick welder. There are some production 1 man portable gasoline welders that work this way. Google for documentation. Drive with an electric motor or a gas engine. 100% duty cycle!
Add the motor to that vintage Murray bike frame you have hanging around, buy reeeeeeally long extension cord. GRM electrocycle!
someone on here used a big single-phase motor to spin a three-phase motor which they used to run stuff in their shop.
the info in my sentence above is probably just enough to get you zapped, so please don't try this at home.
Use two appropriately sized cart wheels make an electric can crusher. Put a loading tube with a micro switch at the entrance, enclose the wheels and have the back side send the crushed can to a bin. An electronic timer to run for a set amount of time and a relay or two...
RossD wrote: Use two appropriately sized cart wheels make an electric can crusher.
Oooohhhhh... or a slightly different bent... pitching machine!
What you should have done with the machine...
Whirlpool Front Load Washer Total Carnage - Runaway Drum Assembly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
In reply to ronholm:
Could not stop laughing when it took off across the yard. I own a Wirlpool front load. I hope that never happens to mine.
Grizz wrote: Ooh, electric go cart maybe?
This. Mount a HF generator on it and use it to provide 115/1 for the motor. Instant hybrid! Might need one motor per wheel in order to be entertaining. Oh, and gears. Those washer motors are going to want to turn like 1750 rpms.
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