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Long story short, I'm looking for a replacement plastic fan blade for a 30 year old no-name 2 HP motor, that I'm pretty sure is original equipment on my vintage Rong Fu RF-30.
I was running my new-to-me 1992 RF-30 mill/drill when the part I was milling popped out of the cheap (soon-to-be-replaced!) drill vice under load. When that happened the motor instantly started making a terrible noise until I got it shut down. Upon removal of the fan cover I found that all of the blades of the plastic fan were broken off and laying in the bottom of the cover.
Apparently sometime in the prior 30 years a bolt found its way into the motor cover, and must have sat there watching the fan blades zooming by for decades, until the moment my part snapped out of the vice with a jolt, popping the bolt up into the fan, then all hell broke loose!
So, if anyone happens to have an old motor laying around because they have a nice VFD installed, I sure could use a fan blade.
Other than this issue I think I lucked out and found an very nice, gently used machine.
I currently have a TouchDRO display kit that came yesterday, and I'm waiting for the DRO scales and 5" mill vice to arrive any day now.
Thanks,
Tony
I was running my new-to-me 1992 RF-30 mill/drill when the part I was milling popped out of the cheap (soon-to-be-replaced!) drill vice under load. When that happened the motor instantly started making a terrible noise until I got it shut down. Upon removal of the fan cover I found that all of the blades of the plastic fan were broken off and laying in the bottom of the cover.
Apparently sometime in the prior 30 years a bolt found its way into the motor cover, and must have sat there watching the fan blades zooming by for decades, until the moment my part snapped out of the vice with a jolt, popping the bolt up into the fan, then all hell broke loose!
So, if anyone happens to have an old motor laying around because they have a nice VFD installed, I sure could use a fan blade.
Other than this issue I think I lucked out and found an very nice, gently used machine.
I currently have a TouchDRO display kit that came yesterday, and I'm waiting for the DRO scales and 5" mill vice to arrive any day now.
Thanks,
Tony