Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Going out of business. Everything must sell!! Huge inventory of windmill towers, wheels, gear boxes, vanes, helmets, and tons of miscellaneous parts for Aeromotor, Dempster, Monitor, Fairbury, and others. Deadline for selling is March 4th. Located in southeast Nebraska. Call me at 402-269-8238 for ...

need a 5 section hub for my 5 section wheel.

Dave Straub

Looking for an 8' WC Monitor restorable gearbox complete with gears and internal parts to be brought to Trade Fair. Bearing location under the gearbox.

Can bring wheel to trade fair.

10' F & W open gear No. 7 wheel in excellent condition includes 3 wheel arms. $600

Sampson open gear head. No wheel, gears wore out, parts only. Mainframe part # is 1771 $100. Can bring to trade fair.

Need 12 ea or more Aermotor 10' nuts for wheel spokes size 15/32

Yup..USE to be you could go to an auction, buy a cup of coffee, and start browsing amongst 150- 300 people, have fun, and buy some bargains during the sale. NOW.. you go to a sale and due to the Internet auctions you are bidding against millions of bidders. All it takes is for some SOB that has more ...

It's impossible to give an estimate without looking at it but most of the time it can be dismantled, thoroughly cleaned, bearings replaced, crosshead babbitt re poured, new wheel shaft made, new front end seal, fixes most gearboxes and re assembled for $750-$1000. Other problems can be brake hub ...

The windmill is self regulating so that winds greater than around 20 mph the wheel will start to furl out of the wind against the vane spring. Move the vane spring IN to the nearest hole in the vane arm. Also you can fix the shut off handle part way so the wheel is 45, plus/minus degrees into the ...