molassesbros
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2017
Hey everybody,
Long time lurker, first time poster. Gotta say thanks to all the great people on sharing their knowledge about keeping these machines running. I have gathered a lot of info here in hopes of bringing back to life a '56 EE (#42092) that my long time employer/friend owns. He purchased it in the mid '80s and has never had it running because it was wired for 460 3ph. Every shop building he has been in only had 230 3ph.
He has had several people over the years, including machine installation electricians, look at the lathe to determine if it can run on 230, but no body could confidently say "yes". He got answers like:
"You gotta buy all the transformers and tubes from Monarch to make it run".
"Just plug it in to 230, it should work"
"Get a step up transformer" and..
"Gut it and put in a VFD"
He is now looking at retirement and would like to bring the lathe home and use it in the garage with 230 single phase. After searching PM and coming across peterh5322 post: https://www.practicalmachinist.com/...ve-universal-wiad-voltage-conversions-176641/, it seems like we may be able to finally get it running again. However, someone has been into the wiring already and there are some suspicious connections and loose, uncapped wires dangling around inside the WiaD compartment.
So first order of business was to get the wiring diagrams from Monarch. After calling and talking with Terrie Schwaiger ([email protected]), she was kind enough to email over. I went to my local copy center and printed them out on 11x17, but now realize with my failing eyes, I'm going to have to go bigger. There is also some text in the "NOTES" area that has faded and I cannot make out.
I don't want to guess what it says, so I was hoping maybe someone on here can fill in the missing info. Also, does anyone else have prints that look like this, where it looks like the images have been stretched? I can't believe the original print had ovals where it looks like it should be circle. Thanks in advance!
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Long time lurker, first time poster. Gotta say thanks to all the great people on sharing their knowledge about keeping these machines running. I have gathered a lot of info here in hopes of bringing back to life a '56 EE (#42092) that my long time employer/friend owns. He purchased it in the mid '80s and has never had it running because it was wired for 460 3ph. Every shop building he has been in only had 230 3ph.
He has had several people over the years, including machine installation electricians, look at the lathe to determine if it can run on 230, but no body could confidently say "yes". He got answers like:
"You gotta buy all the transformers and tubes from Monarch to make it run".
"Just plug it in to 230, it should work"
"Get a step up transformer" and..
"Gut it and put in a VFD"
He is now looking at retirement and would like to bring the lathe home and use it in the garage with 230 single phase. After searching PM and coming across peterh5322 post: https://www.practicalmachinist.com/...ve-universal-wiad-voltage-conversions-176641/, it seems like we may be able to finally get it running again. However, someone has been into the wiring already and there are some suspicious connections and loose, uncapped wires dangling around inside the WiaD compartment.
So first order of business was to get the wiring diagrams from Monarch. After calling and talking with Terrie Schwaiger ([email protected]), she was kind enough to email over. I went to my local copy center and printed them out on 11x17, but now realize with my failing eyes, I'm going to have to go bigger. There is also some text in the "NOTES" area that has faded and I cannot make out.
I don't want to guess what it says, so I was hoping maybe someone on here can fill in the missing info. Also, does anyone else have prints that look like this, where it looks like the images have been stretched? I can't believe the original print had ovals where it looks like it should be circle. Thanks in advance!
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