I bought a honda EM5000 generator at a auction. I had no idea if it would even start. I got it home and it started on the first pull. I then plugged in a saw and had no power to anything. After troubleshooting it went to repair shop and I was told the voltage regulator was out of it and it would cost $300.00 to fix. I started to think, I need a motor to replace the ancient Kohler 10HP on the wood splitter. Would a 11HP honda off of a generator be able to replace the old side shaft Kohler?
HONDA GENERATOR MOTOR ON A WOOD SPLITER?
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Most generator motors have a tapered shaft for which I have not been able to find a love-joy coupling to fit.
The machinist at a shop I use to work at would put a tapper in the lovejoy. I'm not sure it would be worth it cost wise??? We had a strange hydraulic motor-electric motor combination that required this modification...
RNLA said:
Yep, anybody worth half his weight in salt at running a lathe can internal bore the taper in pretty short order. Ya just gotta know the taper to reproduce it.
So if I am understanding this,when I take apart the generator I will be able to determine if it has a tapered shaft or not. Then I will either have to have the shaft machined down to a certain size or machine the inside of a love joy to meet the taper of the shaft?
Lovejoy makes a mill motor coupling that I think might work on the tapered shaft ,but I dont know how much it costs?
This is what I did, cut the taper off of the shaft then took a die grinder and cut a keyway into the round shaft finished off with hand file. This was on 8 HP Briggs has been working fine for years. Gen shafts seem to be longer for some reason and this worked out fine can be done inabout 1-1/2 hours if your handy.
I guess I would ask why did you buy the generator in the first place. Specifically, did you need a generator or did you have intetnion from the start to use the engine for a logsplitter? It would seem that the former is the case from your first post.
If it were me, I'd cough up the 300 clams to fix the generator and have a nice generator for a total of a $600 investment. Then I would by an 11HP harbor freight Honda clone for the log splitter for an another $159. Link is below.
http://www.harborfreight.com/11-hp-ohv-horizontal-shaft-gas-engine-66492.html
If it were me, I'd cough up the 300 clams to fix the generator and have a nice generator for a total of a $600 investment. Then I would by an 11HP harbor freight Honda clone for the log splitter for an another $159. Link is below.
http://www.harborfreight.com/11-hp-ohv-horizontal-shaft-gas-engine-66492.html
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