Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

It is a less than comforting feeling that I was the only one seeing it was together wrong "seeing" as my eyesight has deteriorated enough to warrant cataract surgery.... I should have looked at your location sooner.as I have put up a 10 x 33 South of you at Ridgefield. I don't have as many...

Look again at the left wheel in the Aermotor manual. That is how your's should look. The right is how it looks when you get to the last section before you flip. Yes, I can see your's fine. Both sides of your sections are either both in or both out which is wrong. They should be one end under and the...

Here is the diagram straight out of aermotor manual and maybe less confusing. You can do either a clockwise or counter clock wise overlap.. You can usually tell by looking at the wheel on how it was oriented originally.. It is best to install as once was as they conform You just go around the ring p...

A little late but all the aftermarket tail bones have the strut and Z bar just flat stock welded in...

And the retaining bolt for the tail pin has an offset to aid in the buffering/torsion of the tail bone when it furls

Ron

The diagram is correct but does not match your installation. If you look at one individual section (3 blades), you will see that each outer band end of one section is either both on the outside or both on the inside. They are meant to alternate or overlap. Pay no attention to the arc lines in the di...

I don't think you get the Aermotor wheel under tension strength by assembling it like a Southern Cross. Your furl lever appears to be the whole way open but the lower furl ring is not sitting on the end of the stub angles? The mounting holes are to be 16" from angle end to hole center. I have e...

Towers are plentiful and not as rusty out this way. We go through them and they wind up being half the cost of new. In 25 years of doing this, I have never bought a new tower. There are more non aermotor towers in these two stacks of eight foot towers than I like but they were already stubbed for ae...

You really didn't say how long it pumped after releather. But if it was more than a month I don't think pipe dope is the issue. The most likely is rod disconnect or hole in pipe.

This is one style of anti swivel we do

Pump truck/pump hoist rig/pulling unit. There are 5 different manufacturers 20240603_144759.jpg 20240603_145317.jpg The rigs are not quite as common in the East because of higher water table and a lot of submersibles are set on poly pipe. The rigs run on hydraulics either from the truck PTO or as mi...