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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: rod-mill project - "mains" electric motor advice
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:54:50 -0400
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"Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m11pttet2t.fsf@void.com...

I looked at the second-hand bulletin boards.
Some "possibles".
The cost of travel to look would absorb a lot of the second-hand saving.
I will go to see family up in "the North" imminently - will look at
"doubling-up".  See if can get to see and maybe collect on a journey I
am already doing.

Best wishes, Rich S
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When people ask me for free help with some project I detail the difficulties 
that I've faced on similar jobs before and suggest they could help with the 
leg work, like finding a source of your motor. Often the request fades away 
when they realize how much they have asked for. I've mentioned the machine 
tools and electronic test equipment I found I needed to recover from 
stumbling blindly.

At Mitre the engineers would roughly specify the project and order critical 
components before asking me to complete the design details and handle 
construction. That worked out well, they knew the theory and I knew the 
practice.