Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

thanks!

windybob wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2024 3:50 pm I think those bolts / nuts / plates may be homemade insurance of sorts.

Yes, they would keep it from unscrewing, and were obviously a response to some issue.

When a sandpoint is driven, usually a cylinder is placed towards the top for "ease of servicing". Ok, right.

I don't know if you have a sand point or not. 60 ft is awful deep for a point, I don't think a point will work past 25 ft or so, due to the weight of the water, vs the suction of pulling ...

OK Thank you. Any tricks or pitfalls to disassembly? No reason for it except curiosity. It was cool to find it anyway. That one looks like it was in a cistern or dug well, not buried in the soil. Great technology for the times.

There was a hand pump right on the property line of our remote river bottom field, then it went missing. This was some 30 years back. Recently I found the 1.5" pipe with a metal detector, and the Montgomery Ward cylinder was just below rhe frost line. It came off easily, leaving the apparently ...