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Re: Grinding sync motors with an angle grinder :-))



Hi all,


>Original Poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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>> My rotor is 3.2226 inches across.  I am cutting flats 0.850 wide.  My 1/4
>> HP A.O. Smith motor has 36 metal chunks in the outer motor part (not the
>> rotor).
>
>That's called the field..

Where I come from its called  the stator.

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>  I am measuring from center-of-flat to center-of flat on four of
>> them.  There are three notches with the skinny wires in between notches
>> with the heavy wire.  The metal chunk with a heavy winding on one side
>and
>> a skinny one on the other is were you measure from.  I guess these are
>the
>> "half dead" poles. ;-))
>
>Those are called "salient poles"
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