Ok, so when I started to work on my CNC upgrade tonight, the motor started to make a terrible noise. Basically, it is on it's last legs. One of the things I wanted to d, was replace the motor anyway on for the CNC conversion. It looks like it will happen sooner rather than later.
So who here has used a treadmill motor for a lathe or mill? What was involved? Hard? I know the motor has a CCW rotation... most of the motors I have been looking at all night seem to rotate CW. I have read somewhere that it is basically because of the lefthand thread on the shaft however, some motors have offset brushes. How do I tell the difference? All the motors I have seen that run CCW are more expensive than the CW ones.
I found these two on a surplus site:
LINK 1LINK 2What does it mean that the rotation is reversible? That it can run CCW?
How do I control it? I have a KBIC controller (KBLC-19PM) I bought to redo the control on the stock motor. This is the
PDF how to that made me buy it. Will this work for a TM motor?
Sorry for sounding like a complete idiot, I only want to have to buy this stuff once.
Thanks
Eric