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Transformer for mill needed?

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Subject: Transformer for mill needed?
From: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 01:02:06 -0500
Jet JVM-728 mill, 20 years old.  Kind of cranky when took possession; 
rebuilds of the gears and cleaning out 19 years of chips have it now 
running like a top.   A couple weeks ago, put a longer neck on the 
worklight and had to replace the wire running to the light 
(obviously).  Since the existing wires were wire-nutted, it was a brainless 
exercise.

However, yesterday, the mill started blowing fuses.  It's a 220V machine 
and each leg has a 20A fuse.  I pulled the transformer and all the motors 
run fine if I press the button on top of the magnetic-clutch/terminal 
block/whatever the hell it's called thingie (and nothing blows).  But if I 
connect the transformer, it pops the fuse or the breaker.  A friend told me 
that these transformers are 220V in and 110V out and all they do is charge 
those clutch thingies (from the power box buttons) to power the 
motors.  I'm pretty clueless when it comes to transformers (pretty clueless 
when getting past the first week of VocElect with DC actually) and need 
some help on getting this fixed.  I can shim the door to the circuit box to 
manually engage the press-button but methinks that's not a good long-term 
strategy...

Help!  :-O

Cheers!

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