Interesting little motor

[Ultradog MN]

I salvaged this from a machine that was being scrapped. Talked about it with a friend of mine.
He suggested I could remove the right angle gear reducer and use it as a power source.
Hmmm. Not a bad idea but I don't have a need for that. Then he suggested maybe a lathe.
I'm thinking Ha! My lathe is 5 hp.
But he did get me thinking...
Are there any vintage lathes or mills that use only a 1/2 hp motor?
An old table top model?
I don't follow the lower hp end of the hobby.
There isn't a lot of info on this thing.
I did find the controller on ebay for what seemed like a lot of $ and the motor on another site for even more $. And a pdf file on the controller.
What would you guys do with a neat variable speed motor like this.

 

[woodchucker]

SB 9 uses a 1/2 hp motor.
But..... I think if you found a 14 " Woodworking bandsaw, you could convert it over to a metal cutting bandsaw with the gear box and variable speed.

 

[Dan Krager]

Those are a lot like the lateral feed motors for my Supershop machines, so I'm thinking perhaps a lateral feed application. Since I've started metal working, I've lusted after a welding positioner which this would do remarkably well. I have an old gear motor headed for that application but it's not variable speed. Yet.
DanK

 

[strantor]

I'd cram it in a powerwheels next to a 26S Lipo battery back and watch the kids do sick burnouts.

 

[markba633csi]

Lots of Atlas lathes use 1/2 hp motors. But the motor shaft would need to be standard 1/2" or 5/8" and long enough to fit a pulley

 

[woodchucker]

Lots of Atlas lathes use 1/2 hp motors. The concern would be if the shaft is some odd size or spline arrangement or gear end, it would be less desirable, harder to retrofit

but we're machinists we can cobble anything together

 

[brino]

What would you guys do with a neat variable speed motor like this.

Maybe a diamond grinder for carbide?
Brian

 

[ConValSam]

What reduction ratio is the gear box?


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[matthewsx]

I’d use it for my little 12” Walker Turner bandsaw. Wanna sell it?

 

[jwmay]

I'd find a safe place to store it. Probably in the back of a high or very low shelf. Maybe once a year, I'd rediscover it, as I rummaged for some other item I have that "I know I put somewhere safe". After a few years of that, I might start mentioning it around other crafty people. In hopes they might want it. Another year or two might go by before I drug it out of its hiding place, and dropped it into the trash can. Then again, that 1/2 hp Single phase reversing motor I've been "planning to put on the drill press" is still sitting on the bottom shelf in the garage, after ohhhh 4 years? Maybe 2022 is the year for it. We will see...