Chuck Ellis
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I have a Delta 14" bandsaw with a Grizzly riser adapted to fit....
Last month I kept losing power on the motor and pulled it off to discover the fan was loose and the motor was overheating...
I took it to the local electric motor repair shop and had a new fan put on... worked great until yesterday... was cutting a chunk of Cherry and it blew the circuit breaker... I figured I had too much running on the circuit, a fan, the compressor and the saw... but the saw smelled hot and like an electrical smell... I shut it down for the day. Today I started the saw without the other machines on the circuit and immediately smelled the hot electrical smell, so figure the motor is probably burned out or is burning out and too dangerous to work with....
I'm thinking now that I'll need to replace the motor. Currently the saw has a 3/4 hp motor, single phase, 1725 rpm....
I'm thinking about putting a full 1 hp motor ... Grizzly has both a 3/4 & 1 hp motor on sale right now, both look to be the same
as the existing motor...
My question is: will the saw handle the 1 hp or should I stick to the 3/4 hp as it was stock on this saw?
Last month I kept losing power on the motor and pulled it off to discover the fan was loose and the motor was overheating...
I took it to the local electric motor repair shop and had a new fan put on... worked great until yesterday... was cutting a chunk of Cherry and it blew the circuit breaker... I figured I had too much running on the circuit, a fan, the compressor and the saw... but the saw smelled hot and like an electrical smell... I shut it down for the day. Today I started the saw without the other machines on the circuit and immediately smelled the hot electrical smell, so figure the motor is probably burned out or is burning out and too dangerous to work with....
I'm thinking now that I'll need to replace the motor. Currently the saw has a 3/4 hp motor, single phase, 1725 rpm....
I'm thinking about putting a full 1 hp motor ... Grizzly has both a 3/4 & 1 hp motor on sale right now, both look to be the same
as the existing motor...
My question is: will the saw handle the 1 hp or should I stick to the 3/4 hp as it was stock on this saw?