scsmith42
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2020
- Location
- New Hill, NC
Lots of good advice from others in this thread.
I used to have a similar problem to what you're experiencing when I tried to start a 37" wide belt sander off of a 30hp Phase-a-matic RPC.
The sander would spin up around 60% or so, and then a relay would kick out (magnetic starter?) and it would slow back down to a stop.
My solution was quite simple.... I kept my thumb hovering over the start button, and as soon as the relay kicked out I'd hit the start button again. If I was fast enough (and the machine had not wound most of the way back down), the machine would spin up the rest of the way and I could use it w/o a problem.
I ran it for over 10 years that way - probably put several hundred operating hours on the machine during that time.
I used to have a similar problem to what you're experiencing when I tried to start a 37" wide belt sander off of a 30hp Phase-a-matic RPC.
The sander would spin up around 60% or so, and then a relay would kick out (magnetic starter?) and it would slow back down to a stop.
My solution was quite simple.... I kept my thumb hovering over the start button, and as soon as the relay kicked out I'd hit the start button again. If I was fast enough (and the machine had not wound most of the way back down), the machine would spin up the rest of the way and I could use it w/o a problem.
I ran it for over 10 years that way - probably put several hundred operating hours on the machine during that time.