two things, scales and mixers

[c0mpl3x]

first off, i have a black and decker 10.6 amp 120vac/vdc industrial drill motor sans chuck and attachments.  ccw or cw rotation, able to be changed at the brush end of the drill (rotating collar, cw-off-ccw) rotates at a shaft speed of 350rpm, and has a 1/2" shaft iirc.  i plan to gear this down with variable ratio pulleys for a speed change, and more than likely run it at a 4:1 or a 5:1 chain reduction speed right off of the head so i can get speeds from between 1:3 and 3:1 at the pulleys.   its roughly 1.5hp, and comes in at 1320 watts i think.  id imagine PLENTY for a dough motor.


second, this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CFMAX/ref=oss_product

says its accurage to 5g in the description, but i've been told by people i know that it's more accurate than that if you light lube the bars inside (pb blaster or similar)

[DenaliPete]

You're way over my head with the drill motor.  I don't really know much of what you're saying there.

But so far as the scale goes, I'd spring for a digital one if I were you.  Many people are happy with the My Weigh series of scales which are under 40 bones. 

http://www.amazon.com/My-Weigh-Digital-Weighing-Scale/dp/B001NE0FU2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1283157973&sr=1-4

Its very useful to be able to zero out your scale when measuring different ingredients.

[buceriasdon]

In the past,because that's all I could find I used a scale like that. Bringing back a digital scale was life changing!
Don

[Pete-zza]

Bringing back a digital scale was life changing!

Don,

I can't tell you how many times I have heard comments like that. I expressed my own opinion on the value of a digital scale in the last paragraph of Reply 7 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6513.msg56222/topicseen.html#msg56222.

Peter

[c0mpl3x]

update on the mixer motor.  i recently acquired a 2.5hp 0-8000rpm 130vdc motor and the AC controller.  all it was missing was the potentiometer for the speed control.  added one from a box of my electronics and the thing RIPS, plus it's tachometric or whatever that is, like a conveyor oven drive control it will adjust the power as needed to hold a fixed rpm.  i imagine that a max beater speed of 800rpm will be plenty.  aiming for 100-150 for low, mostly from gearing but partly from speed controlling.  i can fine tune the exact rpm i want, no more 4-speed mixer needed

[dms]

mOtors are the trivially easy part of a mixer.  The mechanics of holding a bowl still, getting the beater(s) to line up properly, and keeping everything properly aligned are what's hard.  there's a reason good mixers have many pounds of cast iron in them. 

[c0mpl3x]

mOtors are the trivially easy part of a mixer.  The mechanics of holding a bowl still, getting the beater(s) to line up properly, and keeping everything properly aligned are what's hard.  there's a reason good mixers have many pounds of cast iron in them. 

steel girders c-channel aren't a problem.  the construction isn't the problem.  its finding myself a powerful yet long lasting quality motor that can take the stress of dough.

i already have the rough blueprint of the mixer planned anyway.