Posted by Walt Davies on November 02, 2012 at 10:28:42 from (70.199.224.109):
In Reply to: OT---electric motor posted by Jiles on November 01, 2012 at 18:36:14:
Years ago I worked at a very old small army base on the river in CA. We had an air compressure from the 20 it was run by this huge motor, about 4 ft high not sure of the horse power but it was a lot as it had to run a huge air compressure. To start it you took ahold of this very long lever and pushed it to the back then throw the switch wait for motor to start turning slowly then move lever forward. If all goes well an it doesn't blow the main buss fuse it will slowly come up to speed. Aren't these old machines wonderful. Walt
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