Thread: How do you slow down an electric motor?

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Thanks guys for all the suggestions and info. Not sure which direction I am going to go, but you all have given some good sources to start checking. I do have one of those handheld tachometers that you hold up against a spinning shaft and will check it when I get to the shop today.

Pat, mine looks VERY much like the one you pictured, in fact I think they are the same. 3000 rpms seems about right. Here are a couple of pictures of mine. I have the top portion of my belt assembly removed as I am replacing the bearings.......it was wandering and it looks like the bearings being worn might be the culprit.

Don

Man that band saw would come in handy. It was a pain cutting the spacers for my alternator bracket with a hack saw!

Steve, that horizontal bandsaw in the one picture has been a lifesaver. We've worked that thing hard for about 4 or 5 years and it has improved the quality and ease of our work so much. It flips up to become a vertical bandsaw too, but it was always marginal at that aspect.........runs too fast and blade too wide. So I have been looking for a used metal cutting vertical one for a while. Finally found the grey one in the other picture, bought it from the same older guy who was closing up shop. We've only begun to use it, but love it already. The speed is super slow and it cuts curves like one should.

Tools really do make the job so much easier. What I would give for one of those waterjet babys like you see on American Chopper !

Don