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That's a really big IF!
Not really. It's not as pretty as a Benz, but I expect that my cheap surplus gear motor will be around well after I'm gone. I'm all for bling if that what you're into, but saying you get more for your money other than personal satisfaction is not always the case.
 
After emailing the seller and looking at older threads on the AHA forum and such I am unimpressed with the All American ale Works motor. I still have to buy all the switches and lovejoys. It is just an expensive gear motor with astronomical shipping costs. I'll just keep looking for the "ultimate solution."
 
After emailing the seller and looking at older threads on the AHA forum and such I am unimpressed with the All American ale Works motor. I still have to buy all the switches and lovejoys. It is just an expensive gear motor with astronomical shipping costs. I'll just keep looking for the "ultimate solution."


You're going to have to wire the switches for almost any motor you buy. But, that allows you to customize the functions & placement. You'll also need Lovejoys for your setup. The motor & mill shafts rarely have the same dimensions but even if they're the same you've got to connect them.
I cannot speak to the shipping since mine was N/C.


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By the way, as for shipping costs it does weigh in at 32+ lbs.
 
I have a few of these motors left from the old Xerox engineering machines I serviced.... they work well. The gear reduction box is setup for about 60rpm which is slow for me so I used pulleys to speed it up to about 180rpm which works well. They have the capacitors mounted with them and I would be willing to part with them for a reasonable price or trade if anyone is interested.

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Nice gear motor!

If my calculations are correct, it's got about 84 in-lb of torque at 60 RPM (using 80% eff).

Running at 180 RPM puts you down below 30 in-lb. That would be low for a mill with 2" rollers, but should work well enough on a mill with 1-1/4" rollers if the rollers aren't too long.
 
Nice gear motor!

If my calculations are correct, it's got about 84 in-lb of torque at 60 RPM (using 80% eff).

Running at 180 RPM puts you down below 30 in-lb. That would be low for a mill with 2" rollers, but should work well enough on a mill with 1-1/4" rollers if the rollers aren't too long.

I tested it with 2lbs of grain and it burned through it pretty quick with no hesitation so it looks llike its going to do the trick... the rollers on my cereal killer are pretty small so that may help... I do know these motors drove the whole engineering copier 36 wide paper as well as a larger diameter magnetic developer roller which had a lot of drag but that was without the pulleys which as you mentioned do kill a bit of torque. the 180rpm is a guess since I get about a 1:3 gear ratio between the larger and smaller gear and it was about 1 rps on the motor shaft.
I have others that are a bit bigger but they run on odd power voltages such as 90v DC...
 
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