Subject: Re: Rewiring FORGE MOTOR (& PB-50 warning)

From: "David C. Hufford" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:48:45 -0400 (EDT)

Since Daryl has spoken his last on the PB-50 blower (and well said it 
was), I will add a footnote:  it's always an amazement (not to mention 
disturbing and down right aggravating) that a company such as Centaur 
Forge, which ostensibly specializes in blacksmithing tools and 
equipment, would design a blower with such an inappropriate motor and 
speed control so as to make the unit all but useless; and it's not as 
though it's inexpensive either (how's that for a run-on sentence?)!  
Frankly, it pisses me off.

D.C. Hufford

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:36:28 -0500

> Frankly, it pisses me off.

My experience with the Centaur blowers has been good, save for a blown 
capacitor at last year's Ozark Conferfence that was replaced with a 
new one by Bill Pieh who happened to be there at the time. Of course 
we use air gates to control blast instead of rheostats so the motor 
speed isn't a factor so much. Wonder if the fire pot design makes a 
difference? The ones I have used are the square Centaur design. These 
hold a lot of coal.
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

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