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What the title says. I recently acquired an (at least!) third hand Huvema HU-1000-2 and I've been loving it so far. The only thing it doesn't really do is change speeds fast, it needs V-belt changing underneath a cover that has not one but two awkwardly placed screws holding it in place. The thing was built in 1995.

The motor looks like a pretty standard single phase split phase design with a permanent run capacitor. Would it be worthwhile to try and stick a VFD on it or is the motor too old to be designed for that? Does anyone have experience with conversions of older lathes like this?