I am building electric wire stripper and need help.

Originally Posted by cyberdan

I decided to try the way I asked about in my above post. Works great. I know this is a light duty motor so if it burns out I will come to that problem when it does. The step down pully turns at just the speed I want.



New question. I trimmed a cord off of a VCR to do the test. It is a three prong. I know the ground is the big prong. should I just attach the ground wire to the motor body or part of the frame?

Yea you can secure the ground wire anywhere to the motor shell, have you connected the incoming AC power for the correct polarity.

Motor will run either way, but the wrong polarization makes the motor shell and anything metal that its connected to live ( HOT) which could result in death.

Originally Posted by alloy2

have you connected the incoming AC power for the correct polarity.Motor will run either way, but the wrong polarization makes the motor shell and anything metal that its connected to live ( HOT) which could result in death.

Very good question. I did all my testing with bare wire stuck in the white plastic plug. I did make sure not to touch any part of the motor assembly while it was plugged in. I checked and the motor did run either way when I plugged in the wires.

I have no way to tell which wire is hot with the cord I used. I will toss it in my wire bin. I do have laptop cords that are like the pic shown. So the wide spade matches the square plug on the other end. Is this the hot wire?

Gotta be extra careful today, very rainy today and my workshop is the back half of my greenhouse. (very dry on the workshop side)