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.