Last weekend another local school district had a surplus sale, we went to see what they had, I ended up bringing home a couple finds.
First up is a Hobart commercial oven, they replaced theirs with a bigger unit and I thought this might make a powder coat oven. It is a natural gas oven so I'll need to switch it to propane, the parts are available but more expensive than I thought they would be, about $440.00 to my door and I paid $65.00 for the oven so about $500 for a pretty good size oven. not as good of a deal as I hoped. The new version of this oven sells for about 7K and the refurbished ones are about $2500.00 for the Hobart's.
Second up is a Powermatic 12" pedestal disk sander for $50.00. It would have been nice if it was 110V single phase but it's 230 3PH so I either need to add a circuit to my RPC to power it or get a small VFD for it. Best would be a 110V 1PH input vfd that gives me 230V 3PH output but so far I haven't found a 110V unit higher than .5 hp. The shop is wired for 110 with a few 220 welder outlets.
So does anybody know of a 110v in 230v 3ph out 1hp controller?
Or of a way to safely run a NG oven off of Propane other than replacing the gas valve and orifice?
First up is a Hobart commercial oven, they replaced theirs with a bigger unit and I thought this might make a powder coat oven. It is a natural gas oven so I'll need to switch it to propane, the parts are available but more expensive than I thought they would be, about $440.00 to my door and I paid $65.00 for the oven so about $500 for a pretty good size oven. not as good of a deal as I hoped. The new version of this oven sells for about 7K and the refurbished ones are about $2500.00 for the Hobart's.
Second up is a Powermatic 12" pedestal disk sander for $50.00. It would have been nice if it was 110V single phase but it's 230 3PH so I either need to add a circuit to my RPC to power it or get a small VFD for it. Best would be a 110V 1PH input vfd that gives me 230V 3PH output but so far I haven't found a 110V unit higher than .5 hp. The shop is wired for 110 with a few 220 welder outlets.
So does anybody know of a 110v in 230v 3ph out 1hp controller?
Or of a way to safely run a NG oven off of Propane other than replacing the gas valve and orifice?