I scored an 1970s 'made in Taiwan' bench grinder from the dump. It had a shattered Bakelite mains switch and the wires had been disconnected.
I wanted it for mounting a pair of small polishing mops.
The armature has a centrifugal switch and may not have had a start capacitor as there is no evidence of mounting.
The windings have two red wires and two smaller white wires. I tested for continuity which seemed OK, but found one red is short to one white. I removed the windings from the frame and could see that the red and white are crimped into a sleeve in the varnish. Close inspection revealed that only one copper wire went from this sleeve into the winding, but elsewhere there is a single copper wire from the slots into a sleeve and two copper wires out into the slots.
Red to red measures 13R 48mH.
White to white 12R 25mH. Then I measured red to white (not the shorted ones) and found 12R 25mH. This suggests a third winding.
I'm confused and cannot see how to connect this to run it. The windings are very clean with no discolouration or damage.
Any ideas welcome, BT