My Actifit Report Card: March 18 2020

Yesterday I worked on disassembling my pottery wheel so that I could take out the old motor and replace it with a new variable speed motor.

This task was very involved and took me a few hours. I was careful to take before and after pictures to make sure that I could reassemble the electronics.

My friend bought an inexpensive pottery wheel from a Chinese company that did not have enough power to handle large amounts of clay. She bought a new motor to give it more capability, but it did not fit the housing. She got fed up and bought a different pottery wheel altogether and told me that I could use any of the parts from the Chinese model.

I love a challenge so I was happy to take the brand new motor and use it to replace my old motor on my pottery wheel. My old pottery wheel only had two speeds, high and low and it did not have a foot pedal.

The newer pottery wheels are variable speed with a foot pedal to control the speed. The pottery wheel that my friend bought from China had a foot pedal with a small variable speed motor.

I started the process of using the purchased larger motor and the foot pedal and switch from the Chinese pottery wheel.

After everything was taken apart, I realized that it was the perfect opportunity for me to clean and spray paint the metal frame of my old pottery wheel.

I figured that the new motor and the new look would make my pottery wheel look and work like it was new. After all, the upgrade did not cost me a penny.

I did very well until I tried to figure out the wiring from the Chinese model. A lot of the writing is in Chinese on the parts. I can easily replace the new plug with my old plug into the motor but that would just give me the same two speeds.

It appears that this pottery wheel has a separate power source that may also include an option for 240 V in addition to 110 V.

I suspect that one of the electrical parts may also be a transformer, but I am not sure. I was almost finished until I got stuck. I hope that I don’t have to hire an electrician to figure out the convoluted mess of wires. I have to do more research so that I can find a wiring diagram for the small pottery wheel.

If push comes to shove, I can always put it all back together with just the original two speeds of high and low without the foot pedal.

I hope that I will be able to figure it out.

Enjoy your day.

Gardening,Daily Activity

Height 5.9 ft		Weight 132 lb		Body Fat %
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