Awesome. Great setup. I just replaced the original bearings on my lathe. The HI/LO gearing eats up a lot of power and the motor the lathe comes with is quite weak. I’m thinking about doing the same. I’m sure the Mrs won’t miss the motor on her treadmill 😉
@@fred8674 lol, I've been trying to pick up one for free forever, they always pop up while I'm browsing marketplace on the can at work and are gone before I can grab them. Bought a motor and controller outright a while ago and just now finally scored a whole free treadmill. A light industrial model that should do nicely. The other one will go in a drill press most likely.
You can rewire the switches in the lathe to the motor and add an RPM meter and keep it cosmetic and OEM looking. The switches are just a DPDT, and the toggle and rheostat are no different than what's in the treadmill. Mount the little circuit board behind the lathe, splice the wires and it'll end up much neater with the controls right where the were originally.
I agree. You can delete the rest of that treadle mill control panel. Just keep the motor control board from it. There are other RUclips videos showing that. It's pretty easy to do. Almost plug and play... Nice job dude!
There was a something else needed to use the motor control of this one's style, its been so long I can't remember but it wasn't worth doing to just drill larger holes
Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for! Great idea of the spindle-mounted pulley. Just curious, why did you remove the flywheel from the motor if you ended up attaching it later anyway?
Nice vid! I've had this idea for a long time and it's kind of weird seeing someone independently going through all the same thought processes. Am I correct in saying that you cannot thread with this configuration? The gains in torque seem substantial but it'd still be nice to be able to thread..
you can still thread in this configuration, the treadmill motor is only doing the the work of the original motor but through the spindle. The spindle is still turning the gears for threading as a normal threading operation
Is your treadmill motor a permanent magnet motor? Are you running it in reverse, if so has there been any negative things with the motor when running it in reverse?
@@DrewLSsix I was trying to get a response, and I found out that they are DC magnet motors and can be ran in either direction. I wasn’t getting a response in the first couple so I just started a mass question program and I got my answer.
Thanks for the tips. Getting ready to do a conversion on my antique lathe.
Now I have to go to garage sales to find a tread mill. Good concept, thank you.
Try craigslist, free stuff. I've got 6 from there.😉
Awesome. Great setup. I just replaced the original bearings on my lathe. The HI/LO gearing eats up a lot of power and the motor the lathe comes with is quite weak. I’m thinking about doing the same. I’m sure the Mrs won’t miss the motor on her treadmill 😉
There are bunches of these in the trash or Craigslist/Freecycle, easy to pick up one.
@@fred8674 lol, I've been trying to pick up one for free forever, they always pop up while I'm browsing marketplace on the can at work and are gone before I can grab them.
Bought a motor and controller outright a while ago and just now finally scored a whole free treadmill. A light industrial model that should do nicely. The other one will go in a drill press most likely.
It’s a flywheel it helps to keep rotating wile under initial load to take loads off the motor to keep down amps draw spike
You can rewire the switches in the lathe to the motor and add an RPM meter and keep it cosmetic and OEM looking. The switches are just a DPDT, and the toggle and rheostat are no different than what's in the treadmill. Mount the little circuit board behind the lathe, splice the wires and it'll end up much neater with the controls right where the were originally.
I agree. You can delete the rest of that treadle mill control panel. Just keep the motor control board from it. There are other RUclips videos showing that. It's pretty easy to do. Almost plug and play... Nice job dude!
There was a something else needed to use the motor control of this one's style, its been so long I can't remember but it wasn't worth doing to just drill larger holes
great idea for the final drive,
Can you still cut threads and use the gears as before??
is this motor a M314571 ? i'm looking at one right now to get my old Zyto lathe running
Pretty slick
thanks mister, im motor mod'ing too and throw china motor & mother boards in trash.
Interesting would like to see it in action.
Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for! Great idea of the spindle-mounted pulley. Just curious, why did you remove the flywheel from the motor if you ended up attaching it later anyway?
I had another purpose for the motor to use as a drill, didn't work as planned and did this instead
Its called a reostate switch bro . thats a cool idea you can really dial the speed in with that set up fkn cool dude !
No..it's called a potentiometer
Nice vid! I've had this idea for a long time and it's kind of weird seeing someone independently going through all the same thought processes.
Am I correct in saying that you cannot thread with this configuration? The gains in torque seem substantial but it'd still be nice to be able to thread..
you can still thread in this configuration, the treadmill motor is only doing the the work of the original motor but through the spindle. The spindle is still turning the gears for threading as a normal threading operation
@@040aft Sweet, thanks!
All good till you need to put something longer through the chuck. The word for that dial is potentiometer.
Great build! The only issue I see is that you lose a lot of real estate inside the spindle.
Is your treadmill motor a permanent magnet motor? Are you running it in reverse, if so has there been any negative things with the motor when running it in reverse?
Why are you asking this question in literally every treadmill motor swap video? What exactly are you trying to find out??
@@DrewLSsix I was trying to get a response, and I found out that they are DC magnet motors and can be ran in either direction. I wasn’t getting a response in the first couple so I just started a mass question program and I got my answer.
love it..
Love ya bud you are to smart for your own good
Nonono