Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

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?

Ingenious Rube Goldberg DIY line boring set-up. Hopefully more precise than what a friend of mine did, years ago. He tried to bore out the hub bearing on an Aermotor A612 and put in bronze bushings. He did it with a hand held drill, which apparently wandered a bit. It wound up that the shaft did not ...

Ingenious Rube Goldberg DIY line boring set-up. Hopefully more precise than what a friend of mine did, years ago. He tried to bore out the hub bearing on an Aermotor A612 and put in bronze bushings. He did it with a hand held drill, which apparently wandered a bit. It wound up that the shaft did not ...

Only the very early 602s had babbitt in the big gear bearing cap. Not needed.

Here in WI, where we used to have a thing called winter, I dig footing holes 5' deep. Here's Aermotor diagram.

Not sure about your description of your pullout system. There has to be a way for the mill to yaw to track the wind and the pullout has to be able to swivel 360° as well.