SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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I can so see this.
I got a phone call from my mother and she was laughing her ass off.
My father decided he needed to make a disk sander for his basement workshop. He dug around in his shed and found an electric motor. Strangely enough this one didn't have a tag on it complete with a description.
He mounted it on the workbench and created a mounting to fit the sanding disk on the spindle. Then he started it up.
The whine from the motor was higher than he expected. Much higher. Then he gingerly pressed a piece of wood against the sanding disk only to watch a cloud of fine dust appear along with the smell of burning wood. Then the sanding disk disintegrated.
It turns out the motor was a high speed motor he had picked up in a box of assorted parts in an auction. Instead of the maybe 1000 rpm he wanted it was spinning at roughly 10,000 rpm.
The motor is now labeled and sitting in his shed waiting for him to find a use for it.
He still doesn't have a disk sander for his workbench.
Cat
(I can easily see this happening with my father. He tends to pick up things like electric motors. He made himself a super high RPM Tile Saw when he was re-doing his bathroom. He's an engineer and likes to play.)
I got a phone call from my mother and she was laughing her ass off.
My father decided he needed to make a disk sander for his basement workshop. He dug around in his shed and found an electric motor. Strangely enough this one didn't have a tag on it complete with a description.
He mounted it on the workbench and created a mounting to fit the sanding disk on the spindle. Then he started it up.
The whine from the motor was higher than he expected. Much higher. Then he gingerly pressed a piece of wood against the sanding disk only to watch a cloud of fine dust appear along with the smell of burning wood. Then the sanding disk disintegrated.
It turns out the motor was a high speed motor he had picked up in a box of assorted parts in an auction. Instead of the maybe 1000 rpm he wanted it was spinning at roughly 10,000 rpm.
The motor is now labeled and sitting in his shed waiting for him to find a use for it.
He still doesn't have a disk sander for his workbench.
Cat
(I can easily see this happening with my father. He tends to pick up things like electric motors. He made himself a super high RPM Tile Saw when he was re-doing his bathroom. He's an engineer and likes to play.)
