bobadame
XS650 Addict
OK, Purple Zinger, I'm an old dude too. Fortunately one doesn't need 40 years of experience in industrial controls to hook up a 3 phase converter to run a Bridgeport. Even I can do it. I bought mine from a guy down in Florida who had a little back yard company called Reliance Electric. I found the kit in the back pages of Mechanics Illustrated for, I think, $35.00. This was back about 1974. I bought the converter to power a Cincinnati Toolmaster mill, then a Kerney and Trecker horizontal mill, then a South Bend lathe, then a big Delta belt grinder , then a delta horizontal band saw and finally, about 15 years ago, a Lagun vertical mill. This static converter has not failed me once. It has not caused any problems with any of my machines ever. Recently I bought a Leadwell Vertical Machining center and a big Pratt and Whitney lathe. The VMC came with a rotary converter. I use it for the big machines. I also have a Nibbler Junior, sort of a Pullmax type of machine that I power with a variable frequency generator. I got that because of it's ability to easily change the motor speed. It works well too. I don't have any proof of any kind other than my own experience using that simple little converter. In the last 6 years I've operated a small part time business that I call Sunset Machine LLC. I've earned an extra $180,000 in that time, part time. Every time I turned a machine on it was started by that little $35. converter. It has not failed ever since 1974. That's all the proof I can offer. And I think the word you were looking for was " puesdo".
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