Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

I would heat them and take the end caps off. Some of those load all the innards from the top.Sometimes the bottom check has a leather cup that seals to the cylinder and threads to lock in the lower check. I don't see anyway to hurt the cylinder if you heat the end caps a bit to swell them, and help ...

It may stop now. I really let him have it this morning. Nothing back so far. Gee I thought I had forgotten all those bad words I used. lol

Glad it decided to cooperate. Good deal!

Ya'll look down for a second instead of looking up. Everything has 2 shadows.

Stover twisted wires have a slightly smaller loop for the eccentric, as are the eccentrics smaller than Dempster. I have many Dempster tower wires of differring lengths. Joe, sounds like you are perfectly capable of twisting up what you need. To answer your question, years ago there was a person who...

hold one end in a chain vice, and see if the other end loosens. I would hold the top, and try to unscrew the bottom. The reason is, if you get the bottom off, you can lightly hold the barrel and heat the top and maybe loosen it. If you heat the bottom, and it has anything other than brass in it, the...

In a regular #12, the gears in backwards make the head lock up when you try to rotate it. Plus the pitmans push straight up on the crosshead, not push sideways. The independant gears are a good idea in my book. Allows for a little play. When companies come out with a particular model, it seems that ...

We got a sprinkle.

Burt, I have my addendum catalog dated 1941 for Dempster 7, 8, 10, 3, 4, 9 mills. I was hoping there would be an early diagram of the #12 pre- full circle oil seal. There was not. I will scour my computer for a picture of the old seal I believe I drew for someone. In the meantime, from the end of th...

here in north central Oklahoma also.