HOW TO WIRE A TREADMILL MOTOR | WHAT AM I BUILDING?

Showing how we rewire and hook up a potentiometer to power a treadmill motor. MC60 motor control board and rewiring.
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Hello my friend, Congratulations on the project and the smart way of working that hides great experiences. My friend, I am not very knowledgeable about electricity and electronics. You come up with an interesting and good idea. See you. Big greetings.

[@MakinSawdust]

Thank you very much!

@@MakinSawdust see you.

[@bobleeswoodshop7919]

I will be watching , that is quite adventure you are undertaking. I want to see what you come up with my friend! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@MakinSawdust]

Easy peasy Bob, I got a smart intern ;)

[@elflordsjourneys]

Great project for the mad scientist and his new intern Igor.🤪🤖

[@MakinSawdust]

Igor is a good kid :)

[@NotJustSawdust]

I'm going to follow this adventure...

[@MakinSawdust]

We welcome your support!! By gosh, we may need it :)

[@jrilenge96]

Also, I've got some ideas for my tool post cart and using the actuator motor for an automatic feed. Right now I'm currently using the manual wheels but sometimes it's like using an etch a sketch when I do certain types of tapers. It's never too much of an issue that some light sanding won't fix,, but it would help when I need a little bit smoother transition to eliminate some of the stop lines. I mean I get pretty crafty using the extra opinion gears as a wheel wheel as I like to call it. Or tractor wheel. I just think it'd be needed if I could get it to work. And potentially useful. Lol

[@MakinSawdust]

awesome comments

[@OakKnobFarm]

really cool project! Great job rewiring, Tyler!

[@MakinSawdust]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@FrugalFixerSpike]

I did one in my Total Shop shorty, it ran several hours then fried the board, under load resawing some 8 inch black walnut on the Stretched Shopsmith bandsaw. I will be replacing it with a scr, rectifier and choke wiring system tomorrow. Parts coming!

[@MakinSawdust]

I love the stretch bandsaw project !! I saw the video a day ago. Keep frugal fixin !!!! :)

[@FrugalFixerSpike]

@@MakinSawdust We do things to prove a concept, and sometimes we polish the turd up when finished!! Thanks for watching it, comment sometimes, You know how that works, LOL

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hi Kevin, A nice project... looking forward to seeing more... Take care. Paul,,

[@MakinSawdust]

Thanks 👍

[@johnfarthing4713]

Nice project, Kevin and Tyler. Wish I could have used your info but I found a MC2100LT and the board is different. John

[@MakinSawdust]

Rt on

[@BobAmarant]

Ambitious and cool project. Looks like you’re having fun with it👍

[@MakinSawdust]

Always! You can see my excitement, I have been wanting to get a mini lathe project going for a very long time and now I have finally made the dive into it :)

[@tomjkelleher]

I have a similar treadmill motor and control board waiting for a DIY tool project. I was planning to keep the flywheel on. I think it will help maintain inertia and keep it spinning at a more consistent speed when the load changes. In the example of a lathe, you don’t want the work piece slowing down the moment the chisel touches the work piece. At least that’s what I’m thinking. Other than visual aesthetics, rust on the flywheel doesn’t affect performance. You could just use some sandpaper on it while it’s spinning 😊

[@MakinSawdust]

I totally agree with your inertia theory. I had another viewer enlighten me about the flywheel being threaded lefthanded and I could take it off to clean it. Using your spinning and sanding theory, considering the safety aspect...... heck I will count my fingers when I am done....:) :) I may get a hair in my ass and sand the flywheel to a high polish!! :)

[@DIYGene]

Interesting project. I will be curious to see how it all turns out.

[@MakinSawdust]

You and me both! hahaha :) thanks for stopping in Gene! Hope you are well and safe :)

[@lesthompson5907]

what a grat opatunity to tern it in to a free standing Wood lathe .

[@MarkMcCluney]

Hey Kevin, that looks like a very interesting project. I'm looking forward to watching the progress. Say hi and thanks to Tyler for me. Cheers lads.

[@MakinSawdust]

You got it!

[@twitchtwitch9006]

keep it up, this channel is sweeeeeeeet

[@MakinSawdust]

Thank you

[@JimDockrellWatertone]

You had me at not using for a piece of excercise equipment. Now it's going toward a much more useful purpose.

[@MakinSawdust]

you bet Jim!

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Thanks for sharing that!

[@MakinSawdust]

Our pleasure!

[@7on]

I have the same motor. Can it be wired up as a simple on/off motor? Without the variable speed?

[@MakinSawdust]

I dont think so

[@jrilenge96]

I want to see this desktop lathe I have a similar setup. It's a sherline head stock on an 18-in bed. I had it previously running off 3/4 HP sewing machine motor. After the 4th or 5th one I burnt through. I got my hands on some of these treadmills and now working on converting. I got to go through the garage and find me potentiometer. I have both. The the MC60 and an MC2100 controller and feel I should go with the 2100 just to get the cleanest power. My big conundrum though is figuring out my pulley. I currently was running gator belts that are 1/8 of an inch. Maybe maybe bigger. It's probably in metrics, but they're tiny. Suckers. Strong if you get the gators but the stress I was putting on them was just shredding them, especially if that headstock moved at all. I tinker too much so I tend to either forget to tighten it down all the way or I'll tap a piece with a brass hammer, move it a little bit or strip out my ex bolts. I'm pretty rough on the little thing. But sherline is definitely quality stuff. Would you happen to have any links on information about ways to potentially get a bigger throughboard on that headstock using bearings with a wider ID. I think it'd be even a neat idea to rig up some kind of double clamp for some material that is longer without having to make a a jig and material holder that extends way out. I feel like a few inches plus an extra clamping jaw will give me plenty of stability and extend some work.

[@rogersmith3613]

good install ructions to follow

[@MakinSawdust]

Rt on

[@umairaziz1971]

I have the same motor, i’m wondering if the end of the motor head is removable? If you could show me how to remove it, it would help me a lot with my project.

[@MakinSawdust]

oh, wow. I am a few weeks away from getting started back on this project, stay tuned friend :)

[@jrilenge96]

The flywheel? That just threads off CCW. Unless it's been modified. As far as everything else a You may be able to replace caps but they're supporting the stator via the bearing cups

[@DavidBarber-rt1un]

Can you let use know what resistance and wattage the potentiometer is,

[@MakinSawdust]

I'll check..

[@sethbracken]

This is rad.

[@MakinSawdust]

I think it is RAD too :P

[@thriftyveegee4129]

Rodger video but I couldn't handle a commercial came afterwards it was 50 minute small I think I watched about half of it

[@MakinSawdust]

Oh wow, YT is up to some tricks again I see.

[@michaelfischer6984]

Flywheel is threaded, hust start motor in reverse and it will come off.

[@MakinSawdust]

Thanks a lot!! That is a lifesaver. I have some new items to start video #2 in this series. Hope to get it started in a week or so.

[@alchemy1]

This controller has a place for a potentiometer. I was hoping you were operating a controller that didn't have the connection for potentiometer.

[@e-racer4673]

To remove the treadmill motor which I’m sure you already have you just screw it off in reverse because it’s threaded on there. do not use a press you will destroy the motor!