Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

The gasket goes all around the cap. I use rope, and tack it in the cap with weatherstrip adhesive. Also what leaks and looks like the cap, is where the rocker arm shaft goes thru both sides. Thats why the original fits SO tight. I see in your parts layout, that you may have a (hook) broken off the ...

A month later and it’s up! Only question, I did buy a new gasket for the lid, but it just seems to really want to leak. Like all around the lid entirely. Suggestions?

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“A full range of sizes available with diameters from 1M to 12M.”

Holy cow, thats like a 40 foot windmill. Wonder if something got lost in translation there. I want the 4 foot one anyways.

Where can i find one? Anyone have any leads?

Just finished building the WB David Bradley I took down a couple years ago. If you guys remember, I traded an afternoon of drone photography for this guy. It stood in a lakebed for quite some time. It was chained up. Got it taken down and brought it home. Took awhile to get around to rebuilding it ...

That isn’t that bad. I posted a mast pipe replacement of a W series at some point in a prior thread. You could weld it up and use a grinder or flap disc to smooth it back down. Consider adding a grease zerk on the stay.


Okay, I think I will leave it be for now. Definitely going to add a zerk ...

Working on finally rebuilding a David Bradley I have to add to my collection, got it all taken apart and gonna blast stuff and get ready for paint. Just have a question, is this amount of wear concern for anything on the bottom of the pipe?

Thank you guys! Appreciate it very much!

I would have to check again on which brand windmill and what book I read it in, but I remember reading that all the windmills were allotted different plots to erect their mills, with limits on height. I THINK it was Aermotor but again, id have to double check, someone with Aermotor got permission ...

Really was an interesting design. And makes sense that it was all off the shelf parts because who knew what was going to happen to windmills in the future!