I never mentioned anything about the Festo stock feeder that I also got from the same auction last summer.
It was in a box, tucked in a dirty old corner of the mill shop. Gave it a once over when I first found it (didn't want to draw other auction goer's attention) looked to be in good condition, but it was sort of disassembled.
I had to buy everything in the whole corner to get the feeder, which included a trailer full of stuff, lots of walnut ply, some starters and disconnects, scrap metal, and crap load of dust.
I ended up selling some stuff, trading some scrap metal for some machine parts that were going to scrap and basically got the stock feeder for free.
When I got around to pulling it out of the crate it was in, I realized that the motor rotor was missing, good luck finding that part I thought.
The feeder sat in that crate until last week when I decided to start the hunt ( for real) for a motor rotor.
Called all over the country, had a few leads. I received a phone call Sunday from a good friend who was also at the auction this came from.
He was going some place that had a beat up Festo Feeder.
I had him pick it up for me and drop it off at my shop. The arm was trashed, the mount was broke, the feeder was a 440 volt only machine, but the feeder itself was in decent shape.
I gutted that one today and installed the rotor in my other one and put it all back together.
There are a crap load of parts inside these things and they are very compact, compared to other feeders.
All I have left is to hook the wiring up, fill it with oil and pray it starts, it should, I have confidence.
As a bonus, I have spares of every part for my feeder, should be able to keep her on the road for my lifetime.
These feeders have 8 speeds forwards and 8 speeds in reverse and the top speed is pushing 120 feet per minute.
I shall provide pictures soon.
