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My old lathe is set up similarly on a VFD. This new lathe has a two stage motor and a lot of controls wired for 3 phase, including an electric foot brake. I can’t say I’m very knowledgeable about these things but it seems simplest just to set up a Rotary Converter rather than rewire the controls.

A buddy offered to give me a 10hp motor, so I guess I’ll piece it together with a North American control box. The controller is surprisingly simple, but the pre-fab ones look much better than what I would build.

We didn’t think of that. Dad’s kind of a cowboy. And the ground is just sandstone bedrock. No coal or gas for 50 miles.

When my Dad was clearing his land there was a big stump like that. He piled brush on it for a year or two. We lit the pile off when my wife and I got married. 5 months later we came back to build the workshop and the stump hole was still smoking. Stumps don’t die easily.

Picked this up at Auction this weekend. Anyone got a Rotary Phase Converter they want to sell cheap?

It’s a special crank indeed. 43mm stroke. Race crank of choice for many 7cube/open builds.

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Most Poplars get big. Tulips and Silvers do anyway. These are more like a Cottonwood. They grow incredibly fast. Unfortunately they’re defenseless against Cytospora and rarely make it to 40 years old. Great for business though. Probably our most common crane removal tree.

Hybrid Poplar.

Bull snake caught a baby rabbit. People get salty at the recycling center. Idler wheel repair on the mini-skid. Young bull moose lounging in our back 40.

This is why people live where it snows.

I looked a long time for a Solo to race with. Ultimately I built a 500 and a 7910 for less money than the only decent 681 I found.

Just stroke a 7900.

I think he is genuine, he’s just not very good at eliminating variables. He’s very fallible. He often says and does things that seem completely off to me, then a month or 2 later he mentions his mistake. Or he remains convinced of things that I disagree with. Seems like he’s just trying to...