Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Maybe try first, then if needed. If so, you could do that on the tower, however it won't hurt anything to put it on anyway.

I just purchased some radiator stop leak and will try that tomorrow, and then JB Weld as well. This mill is for a customer so I certainly do not want to wait until the mill ...

JB Weld is the kind of epoxy i was speaking of.

The A602 main shaft babbitt is actually three separate bearings.

The one at the outer end of the snout is maybe 3 1/2" or 4" long and has an oil passage on the top of the bearing that runs back toward the motor from the oil collector. This passage is the RETURN passage for oil scraped from the ...

I'm rebuilding an Aermotor B602. Manufacture date 1922. Cupped turntable, drain on bottom front of the gearbox. No plugs to drive out pinion pins. No U-bolt holes in hub.

i have the motor disassembled, have done needed repairs and am preparing to reassemble. I did a bit of welding on the hub to ...

I took down a 12' Mogul years ago. Wound up selling it to Ralph Wiebusch, who had it re-galvanized and installed it to re-circulate water from a small pond.

Looks like you may also have the X609 furl lever for the six footer. You need the A609 for the 8' mill.

Back to your 3-leg trussed tower. Does it have split eye brace rods, or are they knob-and-keyhole style? Anybody know when Aermotor switched over that technology?

I use quite a bit of Rustoleum Cold Galvanizing spray. To my mind the battleship gray is a reasonable match to weathered galvanizing. They also make a Bright Galvanizing Compound that goes on much more shiny. If you read the fine print on their Hammered Metal Finish products, it says NOT to use it ...

mattshup wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:16 pm Slightly off topic, did they make anything bigger than an 8 foot in the 502 model?

Thirty plus years ago I took down a D502. I think I wound up selling it to Ed Meyer of Wausau, WI. Somewhere in the weeds I have the motor from a B502.

And why couldn't you get the shaft out? Did you remove the oil collector?