Ideas for 1/2 hp motor

[JawJacker]

I was ready to trash a 1/2 hp pool pump motor (very little mileage). I realize its not dust proof and all but.... Was thinking maybe sleeve the shaft and throw a disk on it. Any ideas? or trash it.

 

[Cabinetmaker]

If it works don't trash it. Blow the dust out everytime you use it. When ( and if ) it wears out, then upgrade.

 

[EdCaffreyMS]

I agree....any motor that works potentially has a use in the shop! I have a disc sander in the shop, whos only job is cutting the lock faces on the bacl of folder blades. It came about because I had an old. open type 1/3hp motor laying in the shop...and then one day at the scrap yard I stumbled across an old cast iron disk sander that didn't have a motor. I put it in the back of the truck when I weighed out, and I'm guessing it might have cost me .50 cents. That thing has been running for several years since putting it together.