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Came home after work the other night to find some of my steel was wet from a rain - blew it dry with the air hose and put it inside to keep it from rusting any worse. When I went down into the shop I heard a very loud buzzing coming from the equipment room - it was my compressor motor. The old Dayton farm duty 5hp single phase had enough of pulling that old Speed-Air pump and let the smoke out in a spectacular fashion, wow - that thing got hot! Looking around, not easy to find a decent quality severe duty motor - especially with the following specs... 230v single phase 5hp, at least 1-1/18" shaft size 1740-1750 rpms Continuous duty The Dayton I had on it that is cooked was an L231T frame, not even sure what other frame styles would work on this old girl but I suspect the common 184T should be similar. I see a lot of negative reviews and feedback on nearly all the common brand names from years ago - I'd imagine they have been bought up and made half as good as they used to be, like everything else. Compressor was originally equipped with a 3 phase motor, this one came out of a corn crib lift that a buddy had given me to do the swap. Is there any brands that are reliable enough for the severe duty I put this thing through? When I blasted my trailer for the rebuild/repaint - that was 7hrs of continuous running at full load feeding a pressure pot. There are days I'll run the glass bead cabinet for 12hrs straight to clean parts/metal for getting things done - need a motor that can keep up and not break the bank. Sarge
