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Re: Bridgeport

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Subject: Re: Bridgeport
From: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 11:51:30 -0600
Bob wrote:
>See there is this Bridgeport down @ the local machine shop for sale...Nice
>1Hp unit, in decent shape, autofeed, not too many dings in the table, seems
>like a good deal.  But I don't have 3 phase.

A friend faced this problem lately:  He'd bought a huge lathe from a scrap
yard to use for a contract machining operation.   Must have been about a  5
hp motor  Just before he spent a tremendous amount of money for 3 phase
service, he stumbled into a local electric motor rebuilder/guru who whipped
together a 3 phase conversion system for cheap.    Find your local "guru"
and see what he thinks . . . at one hp, switching out the motor might be the
logical route.
Tony


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