The smallest Baldor I own

[Mike Heidrick]

I bought Gerrys JLT Glue spreader. It has a small Baldor in it. Thought I would show a couple pics.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e169/BloomingtonMike/groller2.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e169/BloomingtonMike/groller1.jpg

[Jeff Willard]

Cute. Whatcha gonna do wit it when it grows up?

[Mike Heidrick]

Makes using my glue up rack a lot faster.

Someone on the other forum asked how it works. The back pressure bar regulates the amount of glue on the felt lined glue roller. Then you run the boards on the felt roller. Here is a picture from JLT.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e169/BloomingtonMike/groller3.jpg

The grown up Industrial 5hp Baldor Reliance motor is in the Laguna shaper already. That motor is the size of a 5 gallon igloo beverage cooler!

http://dsp.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/p2740084p275w.jpg

[Peter Quinn]

Neat tool Mike. Do you use a plano press? I like that little Baldor, its cute. I got a phase convertor last month to push a shaper I bought this summer. It uses a 10HP 3PH baldor reliance shaftless generator motor to give the third leg. HOLLY SHAMOLLY is that motor heavy. It has an eye bolt for picking it with a hoist, and fortunately I won't be picking it up often.

I work with a guy that was a merchant marine and he described a tug powered by a diesel generator that pushed four 500HP Baldor motors. He claimed the electric motors actually had more torque for pushing the props than an equivalent diesel set up and was more efficient. Can you imagine how fast you could spread glue with a 500HP motor? I smell upgrade! I see a street sweeper sized felt roller, a 500HP motor, a 48" horizontal bandsaw....you can start making your own plywood!:D

[Dennis McGarry]

I work with a guy that was a merchant marine and he described a tug powered by a diesel generator that pushed four 500HP Baldor motors. He claimed the electric motors actually had more torque for pushing the props than an equivalent diesel set up and was more efficient. Can you imagine how fast you could spread glue with a 500HP motor? I smell upgrade! I see a street sweeper sized felt roller, a 500HP motor, a 48" horizontal bandsaw....you can start making your own plywood!:D

I beleive it, passenger locomotives are actually elec, not diesel, same thing, diesel powered generator to power the elec motors.

At the rpms they require a ICE would blow apart..

[John McClanahan]

About how fast does the roller turn? Is the pressure bar adjustable?

John

[Mike Heidrick]

I have an 8' JLT panel clamp rack and the JLT pneumatic flatner.


http://www.redmond-machinery.com/images/JLT/JLT_8_Rack.jpg

http://www.redmondmachinery.com/prodimg/JLT-180A.jpg

The back bar is adjustable to regulate teh amount of glue on the felt. They called it the Dr bar??. The steel block with that bar pivots with thumb screws. You can see one on the left in my first post.

I am sure it said the RPM on the motor but it is not too fast. With the 6" diameter glue roller it turns plenty fast enough without spraying glue all over.

[Josiah Bartlett]

I know a guy who has a 1.5 megawatt rated private hydro plant. It used to run a mine camp and was abandoned after the original generator burned out. He resurrected it and got the permits to run it, supplying power to the grid on-demand. He uses a 3000 HP synchronous motor out of an old sawmill as a generator with a couple of pelton wheel at the end of a 250 foot drop. He has a cooling setup on it so he can push 3 megawatts if he has enough water flowing in the river. That's the biggest motor I've ever been close to. You couldn't wear any ferrous metals near it while it was running or it would inhale you.