Re: (ET) motor for sickle bar mower

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

I wouldn't want to trash a snowblower for it's motor.  Besides, it's way
too fast.  Possibly that sweeper motor with a home made multi stage Vee
belt speed reducer might get you down to 540.  I have a short sickle bar
belt drive att for an old 2 wheel tiller and they don't seem to need an
awful lot of power to run.

Dave
Weymouth MA



On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:09:07 -0600 Daniel Childress <daniel csuol com>
writes:
> Purchased a Haban 5 ft 3pt hitch sickle bar mower.  Wish to use with 
> my elec-trak.  Have a snow blower which has what seems to be a large 
> 
> motor.  Also have a motor that came off of a elec-trak lawn sweeper. 
> 
> Any suggestions?  Will need to reduce speed to 540 rpm.  Anyone have 
> 
> experience in doing this type of retrofit?
> 
> Dan Childress
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Elec-trak mailing list
> Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak
>