[GrizHFMinimill] Re: HF Mini MIll motor seat

I must not have been totally clear about the mount itself. It attaches to the motor ant the machine the same way. 4 screws into the machine on one side and 4 screws up into the motor on the other side. 2 Totally separate sides, that's why it broke. No support, no mounting point on the side with the most weight attached to it. The cast iron motor seat would probably never break with this pattern, but the plastic is way too weak to handle the stress.

--- In GrizHFMinimill@yahoogroups.com, "John Herrmann" <guessed@...> wrote:
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> > All of you I'm sure know that the motor seat below the actual motor isn't attached to anything on the mill, it's just out in left field hanging out. If it were metal that wouldn't be a problem, but they used a hard plastic (painted to look like metal-I think they tried to pull a fast one).
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> Strange - IIRC, and according to the part diagrams, the (cast iron) motor seat bolts down to the mill head with four M6 socket head screws, and the motor bolts to the motor seat with four M6 flat head screws that run upward through the motor flange, p/n 147. Is the plastic motor seat different?
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> Anyway, it looks like a real problem ... maybe for other recent purchasers, too.
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> The good news is that I have one of these (cast iron!) motor seats, which I removed from my HF44991 a year or two ago when I installed the LMS belt drive. Both HF and Grizzly show the Motor Seat as p/n 130 in their part diagrams. If yours is plastic, maybe I can help you.
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> Grizzly's price is $12. I'd be happy to sell mine $4 plus postage. I'd have to go to the PO to weigh it and figure out postage cost. It weighs just a bit over 1 lb. Estimating 18 ounces, parcel post would be something like $8, so the total cost would be about $12 - like getting it from Grizzly with free shipping. If you're in the Phoenix area, you can pick it up from me and save postage.
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> If interested, please email me (guessed at peak dot org). First come, first served.
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> - John Herrmann
> Tempe, AZ
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> Corvallis, OR
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