[phantomcow2]

I've got a bridgeport clone that needs to be fixed urgently here at work. Basically, the original cord got ripped out.

So, I have a new cord and installed the 3ph plug onto this new cord. Now hooking up the wires to the actual terminals concerns me.

I have 3 phases:
xyz, and ground of course.

Well on the actual mill, where there's the terminal, I have a "1, 2, 3, g"

So does "x" correlate to "1", etc.?

Does the order of which I hook up the wires actually make a difference? As long as ground is ground. I know for another machine I wired up here, it made no difference as long as the ground wire was on the ground terminal.
Thankyou!

[Den-Den]

As long as you hook up the ground properly, it should run. You will have a 50-50 chance of it running the correct direction. If it runs backwards, just swap any two wires (that is any of the power leads NOT GROUND) to reverse direction.

x to 1
y to 2
z to 3
ground to ground

If this runs backwards, try;
x to 2
y to 1
z to 3
ground to ground

all of this assumes the motor ran in this location before and the voltage is correct.

[phantomcow2]

So really, the worst that can happen is that the motor will run reverse? Alright, sounds good. This mill was running in this same location just fine 2 hours ago. Thanks for your quick reply.

[phantomcow2]

It works . Again, thanks so much for your replies.