Andypullen
Plastic
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- Jul 7, 2020
Good afternoon All,
I'm the proud owner of a prewar (barely...March 1941) K&T #2K plain horizontal mill. It came from a shop near Hazelton, PA 2 years ago. I have her wired up and have run her a few times. But, the issue is, the previous owner had disconnected the starter and just hard wired her up. I'm not exactly comfortable powering her up using the breaker in the panel. I have a 15hp rotary phase converter to run the 7.5hp motor. I called the previous owner and they told me that the man that had disconnected the starter had died. So, I'm out of luck there.
The switch is still on the starting lever. I thought that the switch was bad originally. I actually found an identical switch on ebay (new in the box even!) and put it in.
I'm assuming that the original starter was tossed when it got difficult. Can somebody help me, or an I worried about nothing?
Thank you!
Andy Pullen
I'm the proud owner of a prewar (barely...March 1941) K&T #2K plain horizontal mill. It came from a shop near Hazelton, PA 2 years ago. I have her wired up and have run her a few times. But, the issue is, the previous owner had disconnected the starter and just hard wired her up. I'm not exactly comfortable powering her up using the breaker in the panel. I have a 15hp rotary phase converter to run the 7.5hp motor. I called the previous owner and they told me that the man that had disconnected the starter had died. So, I'm out of luck there.
The switch is still on the starting lever. I thought that the switch was bad originally. I actually found an identical switch on ebay (new in the box even!) and put it in.
I'm assuming that the original starter was tossed when it got difficult. Can somebody help me, or an I worried about nothing?
Thank you!
Andy Pullen