What motor do I want?

[Daryl]

If you are going to get a 2HP motor, consider wiring it for 220. It makes life easier for the the motor, especially on startup, and your overall power bill will be less.

[Bear]

Hi daryl,
That would be really great but some of us do not have 220 in our shops!


Sean- who wishes his shop had 220v

[Dodge]

Thanks one and all for the greatly appreciated input. I'm on my way to go motor shopping, armed with this info I will probably shoot for 2 hp 220 volt for the amp savings. May be a little over kill, but as Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor says, "Errr Errr Arrrrrrrh!"

[Glenn]

Call on places that have used motors, or repair motors. New motors are fine, but you can get an old motor at twice the size for maybe the same price.

[Ten Hammers]

Scott, TEFC ( totally enclosed fan cooled ) Dayton motors work really good for me. they used to be about hundred dollars a horse locally but I saw that a 1 1/2 horse was up to about $ 185.- a while back. Good luck.

[Jmercier]

I would recomend a good name brand Baldor, Leeson or Dayton single phase 1.5 horse TEFC motor. It's worth the extra money to get a good name brand motor which will last a long time.

I'm driving my 2x72 belt grinder on a 1HP Baldor, and while I can bog it down if I try, mostly it's pefectly fine for everything I'm doing. I dont tend to do a lot of reall hard push hogging on a belt, I'd rather use a stone bench grinder or an angle grinder for that.

[rthibeau]

what you really need Scott is a 318 2bbl with auto trans from 1972 that you can hook up to a line shaft and go to town with every tool you can find and a smile on your face...

[Dr Dean]

Dodge I might be able to come up with a motor that you could try out before you spent good money on something that doesn't work for you.