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DC's have good torque at all speeds. That's a lot of reduction. It's also probably a worm drive. If so, they're not very efficient but won't backdrive at that reduction. Hoist of some sort? Although, personally, I'd rather stick with purchased (engineered) lifting devices.

The motor sans gearbox with a suitable controller could run a variable speed belt sander, or whatever.

Have fun, be safe.

Pete Keillor

Rotisserie for an entire pig?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hell, rotisserie a whole pig farm!

Tim

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A big pile of gel cell or wet deep cycle batteries (180V worth) and build a heavy go-kart chassis?

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got to playing with it in the garage this morning

there is an external spur gear reduction between the motor and the gear box, then the gear box itself is 140 to one

total reduction is to 1 then 140 to one

it came from a trolley for transporting large rolls the fabric used to skin disposable diapers

On Sat, 15 May 2004 12:38:13 -0500, "williamhenry" brought forth from the murky depths:

Make a really nice variable-speed wood lathe.

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Spehro Pefhany wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

My brother roasts a whole pig every year with a 1/6 hp motor. You should think bigger and roast a buffalo.

"williamhenry" wrote in news:03vpc.19401$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews1.bellsouth.net:

With that much reduction, you could make a car rotissery. Need to do under-car work....No Problem!..just roll the car over.