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  1. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    You can use wet tile saw too same idea as slab saw but less expensive. Or really anything with diamond grit
  2. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Shaft is 1" and 6" cabbing wheels and no issues just being center supported there was tiny amount of run out on shaft but the cabbing wheels had more run out out of the box. Wife doesn't have any complaints so far so I don't think a bit of run out is end of world mind you the shaft isn't...
  3. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    I would take you up on that, me and wife plan on joining the Vernon lapidary club in the spring so we can hope on some of there group trips. Finally got the valves we ordered from Amazon so was able to finish the water system.
  4. J

    Tips/Techniques 3 ph to single phase

    Good video about starting idler with motor Good video about building cap start motor and more or less same design I went with. It's kinda a mess of wiring so would be hard to figure out just from pics. I'll see if I can find original wiring diagram I used but the 2nd video I posted covers...
  5. J

    Tips/Techniques 3 ph to single phase

    I like the phase converter path as my milling machine is 5hp 550v so had to go down that path it was cheap compared to getting motor rewound or replace the motor. Im sure I could of jerry rigged something but it was less effort to build phase converter and the cost can be drastically reduced if...
  6. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    That's good to know, and we try to avoid buying stone as it's more interesting and rewarding to find them. But sometimes it's convenient to buy some stock to experiment with if it's cheap enough as some rocks are too expensive when you can just find them laying around. But maybe we can meet up...
  7. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Wife says from box of random cut offs she bought when we visited the rock and gem show in Vernon few months ago as she wanted some flavors of rocks that are harder to find local to us. But from what I remember were all cut offs of rocks found in BC So the top right one and black one are from...
  8. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Not sure which one you mean lol I'm bad with names of stuff. I looked a few of those grinder heads but the smaller versions as they seem to come up semi cheap. I figured they would make goods standalone roughing machine. Those motors are basicly same as the one I used and I have few more...
  9. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Ye that's why you would have to probly press shaft out of arbor and then press back in a longer one. It would probly require rebalancing tho depending on how they machined the arbor to begin with. 3 phase machine would be neat also offers lots of RPM options. The wife couldn't wait for splash...
  10. J

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    Ye the motor I used was 1/2 HP seems more then strong enough. I have few 1/3 motors but the RPM was 3450 and didn't want to make big pulley for them to be right speed and all the other motors I got are 3 phase or just overkill for what it is. But wouldn't have to worry about stalling it with a...
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