Help with AC motor modification!

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Original poster: "Scott Bogard" <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello all,
    I am brand new to the list (my name is Scott Bogard, but you may 
call me Teslas intern if you wish).  I have a motor I wish to modify 
to synchronous operation for a spark gap, and I am curious if it is 
suitable (before I rip it apart and start milling!)  It is a 1/2 
horse, 1725 RPM, A.O. Smith AC motor.  115 V, 7.2 A, 60 Hz, and has 
no start or run capacitors of any kind (I think I read somwhere that 
you must have a motor with capacitor start, this motor does not) it 
seems to have a contact in the bottom from the case to the armature, 
that I believe is for starting, the armature has a centrifugal 
counterweight on it, so the contact breaks once the motor gets 
rolling.  I searched the archives, but there is a whole lot of stuff 
there, and I very well might have missed my answer.  I have a number 
of other differant but similar motors if this one will not work.
Thanks all,
Scott (Teslas intern).

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