HINTS ON HOW TO REBUILD A 602 AERMOTOR WINDMILL
OK...Lots of you budding Windmillers and hobby enthusiast out there want
to try your hand at rebuilding your 602 AERMOTOR Windmills. Let me say "Good
luck" and here are a few hints to walk you through the process. (Are you sure you
don't want to get my 30 dollar informational packet and e-mail me with the specific
questions?)
1) You need to disassemble the Windmill down to the gear box.
Remove the blades, spokes, tail tin, tail bone, bonnet and furling devices.
2) Spin the hub and get the pipe plug to "12 o'clock".
3) Remove the pipe plug, and with a big flat screw driver, remove the
oil collector.
4) Remove the big gears by remove the bearing bar and lifting off the
big gears.
5) Drive the 2 pins out of each little gear. If they don't come
out, you might have to drive them half way out and burn them off.
6) Slide the hub and shaft out of the gear box.
7) Completely clean the gear box.
8) Ship us the gear box so I can repour it for you! Only kidding!
9) Burn out the old babbit with a torch.
10) Take your bearing mold that has the oil return galley cut in and set
it up so that you can pour the babbitt through the ports that are machined in the gear
box. I'm sure you'll have excellent results. If you don't, send me an e-mail
or better yet, send me the gear box and I'll pour ALL of the bearings for you, including
the pitman arms.
Pour prices:
6' 602 Aermotor 600 dollars
8' 602 Aermotor 800 dollars
10' 602 Aermotor 950 dollars
12' 602 Aermotor 1150 dollars
This will come with a 10 year warranty on the parts. If you're
interested in the oil seal and roller bearing model, we can do that too and give it the
same 10 year warranty. It will cost from a couple hundred dollars on up, depending
on the size and model. We'll rebuild the 702 model too with the oil seals and roller
bearings.
My customer adds this important warning too:
Ellen, I just read your article on the website about the 602
babbitt pouring. I highly recommend you add a warning about the burning of the old
babbitt. These were commonly made of lead, and the torch will cause the lead to boil and
fume. Inhalation of the lead fume can have serious health consequences. You can also
suffer from the dust and getting the lead on your hands, and possibly ingesting it with
your sandwich. Emphasis should be placed on maximized ventilation and possibly respiratory
protection when ventilation is poor. Handwashing will get the lead off before lunch or
dinner. Lead cannot pass through unbroken skin. Chronic lead poisoning is an insidious
health threat, often with irreversible consequences.
Ellen@windmills.net
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