[Vwdiesel] Re: electrics help!!

[Roger Brown]

Rod, your internet mail server has my ISP blocked so I could not reply directly, so perhaps this will go through:

rod welch wrote:
 > Hi Roger, I’ve come to know about you through the vw diesel lists and I know you are a wizard with electrics...
 > This has nothing to do with Vdubs but...    Maybe you can help or at least point me in the right direction..
 > First off, electricity is completely incomprehensible to me....  so be gentle!!!
 > I have a small wood lathe and I need to do some long hole boring and to do so, I need to slow it down. What I’m looking for 
is some kind of AC motor Speed Control. I’m a stringed instrument repairer by trade, (among other things...) and consequently 
am very poor...  So whatever the solution is, it has to be cheap... Any ideas??
 >
 > I want to have a go at making some simple recorders or flutes/fifes from local wood and ideally I need to get down to less 
than 100rpm for final reaming...  (am I being too ambitious??)
 >
 > I’ve found some stuff on the internet about inverters and some very expensive looking digital kit but to be honest it just 
doesn’t make any sense to me...
 > Can you help in any way??
 > The motor I have is a single phase ,50hz, 2850rpm, 0.56kw, 230V, 2.6amp motor.. My lathe speeds are 2850 / 1700 / 850
 > There is a 16 micro farad?? Capacitor on the casing...
 > Is there a simple “plug ‘n’ play” solution??
 > Any advice will be very much appreciated...
 > With thanks...
 > ps. Your site is brilliant!!!
 > rod of finland

Should be able to get a basic plug in motor speed controller at most any hardware store, at least you can in the US.  Most 
often sold for controlling speed of routers and other power tools.
Looks like an electrical outlet box with a speed control knob on it.

Or try:
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-- 
    Roger