On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, at 16:37, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: > Wow thank you! Unfortunately, I can’t inspect it in person as it’s in > Chicago. I’m buying it as a bundle package with an English wheel that I > want so I can only go by what the seller tells me, the history of the > lathe and photos! Another issue is that it’s a 3 phase machine so I > have to figure out how to run it on my residential service.
I knew a guy that had set up a machine shop in his gargage, he somehow used an extra three-phase motor (maybe as a generator?) to create three-phase power in the shop. Nowadays I think variable frequency drives are the way to do this electronically. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com