Well I bought a head and seat machine

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I think what I will really like is that now I can change seats and it should make it so much easier to open things up for bigger valves. My local machine shop that charged me 8-10 dollars per hole has their machine shop about closed up. Crank polishing and grinding only.
 
I sure did spend a lot of money (and not done yet) to do what I’m doing by hand today.
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Well he’s going to deliver it tomorrow morning so I’m making shots room. I need a little help picking a VFD and getting on sized right. He’s a picture of the machine tag. 1.1 HP, 3.5 amp. My buddy suggested around a 10 horsepower unit but of course the price goes up as you raise the rating. What do you guys use. Thanks.
 
I already have this sitting here but I want to go with a VFD so I can slow it down some so plans are to sell this.
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The 2hp rotary you have will run it fine while you look for a vfd. Any decent 1 -1.5 HP VFD will handle it. I'd love to recommend on but everything I use is Allen Bradley and fairly expensive for a home shop. Make sure you get one with a brake resistor if you want to slow the spindle quickly. Don't forget single phase input. You can run vfd's off the rotary, but some of them don't tolerate imbalance between the phase legs too well, or at least that used to be a problem.
 
Well everything was delivered as promised today and put in place. If the portable head pressure checkers works for me I may end up selling the big one but we shall see once I have everything up and running. I sold him my rotary phase converter to him for 100.00 so I will put add that to the money I have for a VFD converter. If
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anyone wants to recommend one in the 200.00 area please do so. I’d like to get it from Amazon if possible to get it here sooner.
 
Did you get some chickens in this deal? I see the transporter cage in the first picture.
 
Well that was fast service. Ordered a manual on eBay this week for this machine to help the learning process and the company was located in pa. 25.00 well spent.
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