[TheForge] Dimmer switch as motor controller

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

The cheap router speed controllers from Harbored Fright do that pretty 
well too.

Tod Estes wrote:
> Been using a light dimmer switch to control an old motor from a  
> salvaged vac. it has been running strong for more than 6 years now.
> your milage may vary.
> 
> Quoting Rich <rich at maynard.org.uk>:
> 
>> Thanks for the ideas. It's just a little fan for the portable forge and
>> as a means of running my 2nd hearth in the forge without using the hand
>> bellows but it works well enough.
>>
>> Looks like a mechanical solution is the answer.
>>
> 
> 
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