Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Soluble or ferrous iron is a pretty common culprit for rusty water. It exists in the water and is brought out of solution by oxygen or dis similar metals. The quick litmus test is put a gallon of clear water in a white bucket and add an ounce on bleach. If soluble iron is present, you will see brown ...

I think I know what is causing this but answer some questions.

Is there a weep hole below the pump in the drop pipe?

Is the water rusty right away when starting to pump?

How far is the water level below the pump?

How many pumps until it clears?

How long can the pump set between uses that the ...

You have a 2.75” pump cylinder. If you have difficulty measuring the leather, measure the brass plunger ring between the leathers and it will be approx 1/8 smaller than the leather OD. That is a spring loaded spool valve type cylinder.

It is hard to get guides for 2.5” without special order. 3 may ...

Halladay's design.varied the pitch of the blades to govern so it wasn't off center.

Dempster was early if not first to be off center

Original Dempster Solid Wheel Windmill (1885-1909)

The first windmill manufactured by the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company was the Dempster Solid Wheel. It was a ...

The windmill was a first step for many farms to embrace mechanization over manual labor or horse use. The windmill was very effective in providing water by harvesting the wind. So there was a natural progression to assume wind could be harnessed for other uses.

Attached is the last two pages of the ...

I assume you might still be pulling this well?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrOcJyj2gsA

I ran across this channel on you tube and viewed some of his things. Mostly it is accurate but for what he deals with in the formations that are in his area. Helping out his brother, he totally went out of ...

I took time and looked back thru your post since it was all in one spot Here are my observations:

The grease inside the hub doesn’t make sense when it would have been apart for a repour.
Mill was likely worked over several times.
Case and hub were not together originally.
The fan, tail bone, bare ...

That looks like a piston type pump as you called it. They could go to 350’ but you will only know for sure when you pull the last stick. Modern day regs in most states don’t allow pit setups because of the high probability of contamination. Your high static water level could be from ground water ...

I never knew him to be on anything online. He is likely old school since being 94. I will PM you the landline contact info I have. He was the only one I ever ran across that had any windmill knowledge/parts in that general area. I had to look when I met up with him because I went to Glacier NP and ...

The combined tail bone and tail vane assembled is approximately 10' for a 10' mill. It sounds like you have the tailbone and are only looking for vane "tin"? If you dont have the bone, there is probably more parts missing.

Height of tail vanes at widest vertical point mounted direction:
8' - 35"
10 ...