Re: rod-mill project - "mains" electric motor advice

On 18/06/2025 20:09, Jim Wilkins wrote:

"David Billington"  wrote in message news:102v0bm$39cko$1@dont-email.me...

Your mill looks quite portable as is.

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I added a crane like this to my pickup truck, with a home made mast extension for taller loads such as appliances, my ~2 stone TIG/stick welder, my milling machine and surface grinder and a friend's Atlas lathe purchase.
https://www.harborfreight.com/12-ton-capacity-pickup-truck-bed-crane-60732.html? >
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That looks quite handy and more headroom, 93 million miles, than my estate car but I don't think I need a pick-up that bad, not yet at least.
A question for you regarding US spelling of words such as fiber and fibre, I was looking through a 1926 copy of the William Dixon catalogue and the word is exclusively spelt 'fibre' where it seems the modern US spelling is 'fiber' , any idea when and why the change.
A link here https://archive.org/details/william-dixon-catalog-1926/mode/2up?q=fibre , I just happened to be looking for paper mallets, sometimes called fibre mallets which are on page 297.