This is one of those purchases I probably shouldn't have made but just couldn't pass up. It's an old Dumore grinder/buffer. Picture 4 below is a good overall shot of it. It just looks neat. My questions are on the rebuild of this thing. In picture 1 you'll see the overall shot of the bottom with some of the parts loosened. Picture 2 appears to be a resistor. On the end is written 140 and what appeared to be an Ohm symbol. I put a multimeter on it and indeed it measures 140 Ohms. Picture 3 seems to be a variable resistor. The speed switch had a wiper that contacted each of the copper pads and a wire was hardwired to the stud. Measuring the resistance from the stud to each of the pads I came up with (in Ohms): 0, 50, 80, 102, 128 and 10. Obviously there is a short somewhere on the last pad. Picture 6 and 7 show an "arm" that threads over the shaft and into the housing. Picture 8 seems to be some kind of oiler I'm assuming. You can also see it just below the shaft on the housing in picture 4. Sticking out of the threaded end is what appears to be a wick of some sort. Picture 9 is a shot of the screw that you take out to get to the brushes. The brushes seem to be in good shape and look to have a lot of life in them. Picture 10 is the motor with the cover removed. Oddly, there are no bearings anywhere. The shaft seems to ride in a velvet or cotton seal held on by the arm in picture 7. The oiler (???) in picture 8 contacts the bottom of the shaft.
On to the questions!
1. Am I wasting my time here? The motor seems to spin freely by hand with no noise.
2. What type of speed control should I use to replace the big resistor and the variable resistor? Not sure what power pot or resistors I'd need. The name plate reads 115 volts, 250 watts, null load speed of 5000 rpm. Under "rating" it's hard to make out but I believe it says "1/6 30 MIN." Serial number is 2671 and type is D3.
3. The motor has 3 wires going to it however one of them was not hooked up to anything. Not sure if it should be.
I plan on doing what I can to take the rust off of the external parts and plan to strip and repaint the housing and base. Any help or advice is appreciated.
Upon further inspection I noticed the end of each housing has a brass bushing in it. I guess that's the reason for no bearings.