Use it or toss it
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philk
, Sep 07 2019 03:10 PM
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Posted 07 September 2019 - 03:10 PM
First off I apologize for the fuzzy photo. You can tell the comm got plenty hot by the purple colors it turned. I will have this one refurbished but at what point would you say an arm got to hot to reuse and just toss it ?
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Posted 07 September 2019 - 05:33 PM
If the commutator plates are not unhinged, normal ultrasonic cleaning and trueing the com will show the truth. The arm dye is not showing overheating. If the coils wires were discolored or a errant wire, I would not even do that. Tag looks intact, it is better than 50/50 to the good
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Posted 07 September 2019 - 06:21 PM
Comm seems pretty solid yet.
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Posted 08 September 2019 - 12:47 AM
Ohm it!
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Posted 08 September 2019 - 08:32 AM
at what point would you say an arm got to hot to reuse and just toss it ?
When it's performance starts to degrade. If the arm is an especially good one, all the more reason to have it refurbed than to replace it with one that may not run as well.
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