Looks like AAW is no longer in business - low RPM, high torque option, 3 roller Kegco?

[user 246304]

Ha! OK, this is nuts, but I don´t know why I didn´t think of this before.

- it´s my Retsel stone flour mill. The thing is slow, but a tank. 1/4 HP, 29:1 for 60 RPM, 200 in-pounds. Thing is, I bake - a ton. So I'd hate to break it down every time I want to switch from baking to brewing....still...it's a solid motor, ready to roll. The front comes right off - stones, front and back plates, leaving only a keyed shaft. Hmm...somehow rig up a mobile bench, with just the grist mill, aligned and ready to join portably?

 

[cbier60]

It's only 1/4 HP but claims 73 lb-in and 167 RPM with 15:1 ratio. Seems ideal. Thoughts?

Bodine Electric 42A5BEPM-FX2 Gear Motor 90V 1/4 Hp 167 Rpm 15:1

I have almost exactly that same motor and run it with a PWM controller (also Bodine) that allows you to control the speed. It has been working fantastically for ~ 5 years. I have the advantage of being an electrical engineer, so the setup was straightforward.

 

[user 246304]

I have almost exactly that same motor and run it with a PWM controller (also Bodine) that allows you to control the speed. It has been working fantastically for ~ 5 years. I have the advantage of being an electrical engineer, so the setup was straightforward.

Cool. I can't remember, not sure if I bought a Bodine controller, or rigged one up from component parts (and a lot of digging, and going over it and over it again and again, along with a reversing switch setup, before tripping "on." I've always believed it's easy to do things once - before you know you can't do the thing. Ask me about saying "sure" to building a Japanese garden complete with a ridged roof, with handtools only, by myself, in the deepest part of a brutal Providence, RI winter, tearing my rotator cuff and sucking it up without health insurance. I didn't know that was impossible, lol).

Not sure I have the gumption to try it again.

 

[cbier60]

Cool. I can't remember, not sure if I bought a Bodine controller, or rigged one up from component parts (and a lot of digging, and going over it and over it again and again, along with a reversing switch setup, before tripping "on." I've always believed it's easy to do things once - before you know you can't do the thing. Ask me about saying "sure" to building a Japanese garden complete with a ridged roof, with handtools only, by myself, in the deepest part of a brutal Providence, RI winter, tearing my rotator cuff and sucking it up without health insurance. I didn't know that was impossible, lol).

Not sure I have the gumption to try it again.

Mine is Bodine 42A5BEPM-E2, probably the same motor with a different ratio reducer. Didn't matter to me since I used the PWM for variable speed. $49 + shipping in Jan 2017, and actually free because it was damaged in shipping due to poor packing and they refunded me.

This is the controller I got - Bodine WPM-2137E1 DC Motor Speed Control Filtered Output 115V 0791 7/16HP 0791. $50 +$15 S/H. Had to search awhile to find something that wasn't $200 like the one posted. These are like $500 new.

PM me if you want any guidance getting yours running, or I could respond here if you think there are others that could benefit from the help.

 

[user 246304]

Mine is Bodine 42A5BEPM-E2, probably the same motor with a different ratio reducer. Didn't matter to me since I used the PWM for variable speed. $49 + shipping in Jan 2017, and actually free because it was damaged in shipping due to poor packing and they refunded me.

This is the controller I got - Bodine WPM-2137E1 DC Motor Speed Control Filtered Output 115V 0791 7/16HP 0791. $50 +$15 S/H. Had to search awhile to find something that wasn't $200 like the one posted. These are like $500 new.

PM me if you want any guidance getting yours running, or I could respond here if you think there are others that could benefit from the help.

Thanks very much! Still rolling it over and appreciate your help.