Peter Keen
09-07-2013, 2:33 PM
Hi,
I picked up this Leland Electric wire wheel motor for $1 at a garage sale. It runs really smoothly and extremely quietly - less noise than a running angle grinder.
It has a couple of holes with little caps on them that seem to have grease or oil around them. I doubt that this was originally intended as a wire wheel, as it has a 1/3 hp motor, which seems like a little bit of overkill. My guess is that someone repurposed this motor at some point.
The wire wheel has no switch on it - turns on and off by plugging and unplugging it. The existing wire is fairly short.
At some point, I think that the fence on the device was adjusted via a lever, that goes around the gear - close up photo is below. The lever is missing - the gear turns.
So, here are my questions:
1) How do I re-wire this thing - should I just splice a new wire on, with a switch in it, or should I take the motor apart and wire a new wire and switch into the inside?
2) How do I maintain this motor? Am I supposed to oil or grease it?
3) Anyone know where I can get a lever that would fit onto this gear?
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0246800x536_zps197275f8.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0246800x536_zps197275f8.jpg.html)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0245536x800_zpsafd68267.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0245536x800_zpsafd68267.jpg.html)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0247800x536_zps608c66db.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0247800x536_zps608c66db.jpg.html)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0248800x536_zps80fb1945.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0248800x536_zps80fb1945.jpg.html)
I picked up this Leland Electric wire wheel motor for $1 at a garage sale. It runs really smoothly and extremely quietly - less noise than a running angle grinder.
It has a couple of holes with little caps on them that seem to have grease or oil around them. I doubt that this was originally intended as a wire wheel, as it has a 1/3 hp motor, which seems like a little bit of overkill. My guess is that someone repurposed this motor at some point.
The wire wheel has no switch on it - turns on and off by plugging and unplugging it. The existing wire is fairly short.
At some point, I think that the fence on the device was adjusted via a lever, that goes around the gear - close up photo is below. The lever is missing - the gear turns.
So, here are my questions:
1) How do I re-wire this thing - should I just splice a new wire on, with a switch in it, or should I take the motor apart and wire a new wire and switch into the inside?
2) How do I maintain this motor? Am I supposed to oil or grease it?
3) Anyone know where I can get a lever that would fit onto this gear?
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0246800x536_zps197275f8.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0246800x536_zps197275f8.jpg.html)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0245536x800_zpsafd68267.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0245536x800_zpsafd68267.jpg.html)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0247800x536_zps608c66db.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0247800x536_zps608c66db.jpg.html)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r690/pckeen/DSC_0248800x536_zps80fb1945.jpg (http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/pckeen/media/DSC_0248800x536_zps80fb1945.jpg.html)