what to do with an old water pump

[Louis ShowellParticipant @louisshowell53682]

Stripped down the impellers of an old water pump, seal failed and hard to source a new one, so it sat in Back garden couple of years. Recently decided I wanted a disc sander, so I bought a couple of 225mm grit discs, OK just need the rest of it !

TTESTED the pump motor, it was smooth and quiet and ran at 3000rpm . The motor shaft is 13mm, I found a nylon replacement wheel 80mm for an industrial castor it had a poorly molded 12ish mm hole. Put it in myford and hand turned lathe to drill to 13mm ( my ml1 has no drive train yet ) this resulted in and excellent interference fit.

Jigsawed a 225mm disc of 11mm ply and filed to near circular and glued the grit disc on it . Trued the the disc with a carbide tipped tool. casing very basic as the sanded is a means to an end, may improve it at a later date.

This tool is amazing, I will remake it entirely later on , when my ML1 is up and running

[Louis ShowellParticipant @louisshowell53682]

[Louis ShowellParticipant @louisshowell53682]

Sorry photos came in reverse order !

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Nice save !

How many of us have walked past an old pump and thought I cant use it so it has gone to scrap ?

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Good idea, I've got a few laid about from worn out well pumps but the 3000 revs made me think not worth it.

[clogsParticipant @clogs]

Louis,

is that a dimmer switch on the top ? how do u get on with it……?

cheap and cheerfull is def the way to go……good on u…….

clogs

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

AND, some of them you can reverse! (No idea why, but mine did).
BobH

[Louis ShowellParticipant @louisshowell53682]

This pump seemed a good choice as being multi impellor it has a nice long shaft

3000rpm……duno how fast do disc sanders normally go ?

i felt a toggle or normal light switch on top may be operated when things get plonked on top, and if i had forgotten to unplug it it could be dangerous, so a rotating switch seemed good, the dimmer does work a bit, it starts at 2500ish and contols it up to 3000, yup useless, but is safe considering i know how i am !

today i fitted the cooling fan and the cowling to the other end of the motor, switched it on and instantly i looked like a snowman, it needs to suck and not blow !

reverseing the motor……..sure it can be done but i dont know how this motor has a starting capacitor, motors with no capacitor you just reverse the polarity of the start windings, i would guess similar is true of this motor.

yes my workshop is on a shoe string.

really is good to find like minded people, on the same page as me

Louis

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