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  • This is not good advice. I mean, it is if the bearings are guaranteed to fail. But it’s like “I’m going to put new crank bearings because I drained the engine oil. It’s only a few more bolts” disturbing the alignment of the tie rods and struts and ball joints. That will never go back together just right, probably end up cutting a rubber boot or two so in a month that ball joint is gona be trash too. Fuck might as well just turn a rotor and pad slap into a full front end rebuild. At that point. It’s only 5 bolts.


  • Okay this is fun. So first of your amp reading is no Bueno. As I can tell you have no real load on the circuit so your amp draw will be low. Until something acts as a load like a light bulb contacting the frame and the neutral line or your hands. So the amp will rise.

    Now the next thing there is power going to the motor, with out the foot pedal engaged?

    A quick hunch makes me say is the new foot pedal wired backwards? On ac circuits it’s you cut power at the switch and the rest of the unit is connected to neutral line all the time.

    Those sowing machine motors are typically “universal motors” they are brushed motors that can run on both ac and DC. So power flows from footpedals to brushes to armature, to windings back out the other brush. It’s a bit on the weird side that the shaft has voltage. It could be from a brush sitting funny maybe. But I would most definitely just check the wiring orientation for starters. Then go from there. Adding a ground connection isn’t a solution. A ground wire is to prevent you from getting hurt when this happens.



  • Uh after that head line, I could. The required work is not fully complete, okay… it’s ahead of schedule. For a government job with big profile contractors, who will shut down the job and site on the regular over the smallest of saftey issues/ environmental reasons. This is from experience. They are under budget by 150mill? Massive red flag right there.

    How many corners did they cut, and what lower grade materials did they use? Was the workman ship any good? Things take a certain amount of time for a reason. Professionals know that that’s how they come up with deadlines.

    It’s the triangle of quality. You have 3 outcomes but can only chose 2. Fast and good won’t be cheap. Cheap and good won’t be fast. And cheap and fast won’t be any fuckin good this rule applies 100% to everything.