Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

The Ideal Steel is up & spinning .
I sat for a couple of days wondering what to do ?
So I started to dissemble another Aermotor , this one is a B602 , so Windy I will find out if any of the lessons you have taught me I will remember .
This tower has a B602 so my guess it was all shipped to the local hardware store as a package , notice the printing on the tower leggs , bolts & nuts , gerts & stringers , steps , every thing appears very origional . Cant wait to get inside the motor .
Mike B
new Braunfels TX

The Aermotor should be a lot easier mike. Holler with questions.

Mike that looks to be in really nice condition,i like how you still can read the advertisement.That is a really nice find is it a early 602?

Great looking Project Mike! Now if it’s too cold and you don’t want to mess with it,,,I’ll gladly take it off your hands!

Mike, Might not do another really soon. My Ideal harvest has just about run out, getting ready to fertilize and plant a few more for you. LOL

There has to be more Ideal Steel arround here , Faust Hardware was in business too many years and probably solld lots of those mills , I just need to keep looking , LOTS of Aermotor in New Braunfels including the lattice water pump pictured in the windmill calendar , so , still searching for another hidden gem .

HMMM this is twice now!!!

mtblah wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 8:57 pm There has to be more Ideal Steel arround here , Faust Hardware was in business too many years and probably solld lots of those mills , I just need to keep looking , LOTS of Aermotor in New Braunfels including the lattice water pump pictured in the windmill calendar , so , still searching for another hidden gem .

There was one in Fredericksburg a few months ago I tried to get in amazing condition but I was beat by a antique shop just wanting the fan. The rest I was told was taken to the metal recycler tower and mill.

Brandon , ignorance runs deep and fast sometimes , one of us would gladly dissembled the tower to use again & extra motors to anchor the corner of the shop are always welcome .
Mike B
New Braunfels TX

I told someone the people who run up the cost of windmills is women. When They see a wheel they want price is no object.