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Questions: What kind insulation is on the windings of these motors? When you removed the wrapping on the stator were the wires individually cloth covered, bare, or varnished? If there is substantial amounts of bare wire on the rotor and stator, do you think it is possible to get it insulated for safe operation? I am asking because I am looking at a 3 hp century where someone has taken a pressure washer to part of the stator and rotor.

Bless your heart for using anti-sieze. I wish more mechanics would.

Wow, and he plays piano too! Very impressive and interesting. Thanks

Excellent!

Awesome

I know you probably won't see this but I've got the same motor on my grandpa's air compressor and ive been trying to restore it but i can't get the oil reservoir cap off without feeling like im going to break the spring. I was wondering how you got yours off allso what did you looked up on ebay to get to the brushes i cant seem to find anything similar.

Reed made the best vises period. I'm happy to hear someone else agree

Im looking for one of these Repulsion Induction-reversable motor....

After watching your videos it inspired me to restore a motor my dad had which was a Sunlight Electrical S.P.A.C. 1/4hp, 110v, 50cycles, 4.5amps, 1500rpm. Someone had cut the cord off at the bell. It wasn’t as dirty as this one you restored. I tried to change sleeve bearings even though they are probably good. Problem was there are holes on either side of the sleeve. One is for a thin sleeve for the oil wick and the other was 1/4” hole for the oil fill caps. The fill caps are longer than the Gits 1/4” straight hole covers and I destroyed the old ones getting them out. Is it okay to replace them with the shorter ones even though they won’t reach inside the sleeve? I can’t find a replacement for the sleeve bearing as it is a Bunting with double loop grooves inside. It is 5/8” bore, 7/8” od, and length is 1 15/64”. Any advice would be appreciated.

Dude you know your stuff ! I have Athol 5” thanks for sharing.

Very nice shopping. Love all the items you bought and such a variety! Thanks for sharing.

Great work on that! Emerson fans are put together differently than a a lot of others.

How did you spray the stator windings with all that tape on them? Did you take it off and re-tape them?

Your videos are great! I've learned so much so far about restoring an old Delta motor for a tilt-top table saw. I would love to see a little footage of your process for cleaning the windings. I know you said its tedious and time consuming but some video of what you are doing and what you consider while actually cleaning them as well as what NOT to do would be awesome! Thanks again for the education!

This video was as as good as the companion vise evaluation video.

Very interesting and very thorough. I value premium tools and premium vises. Your investigation ranked some premium vises, and your conclusions have merit that affect my opinions. Like many comparison evaluations, specific criteria shapes conclusions that other comparisons may approach differently. I have my opinions too, and my shop needs shape me to draw different conclusions. I am an enormous fan of Wilton, and rate them higher than you do. The "zero" jaw slop and "perfectly" matched and parallel jaws is extremely important to me, so I am a bit dismissive of the square body designs. I also value utility functionality, and think that the Wilton Tradesman should be included in best vise design consideration. You focused on raw structural integrity. While of immense importance, it is only A factor in my ranking of best vises. I am not a vise nerd, but I currently own 25ish quality vises with 7 currently installed as daily bench vise shop users. They aren't necessarily the very best, but they came to me as need and budget allowed. In my woodshop, I use a Ridge bench vise and a Wilton wood worker vise. In my machine shop, I have a Reed, Wilton bullet, Wilton Tradesman, Charles Parker, and a Prentiss. This allows features, function, and size variations. My Charles Parker was purchased carelessly. It was abused, and the jaw shoulders were broken. Never capable of its former function, I machined the damage and changed the jaw design, incorporating dedicated smooth soft jaws machined to match my redesign. The Reed has cast-in-place smooth jaws, but with a swivel base, it is an excellent player for lighter duty work. The Ridge has the steel slide and T jaw design. Though fairly small at 3.5", with the serrated jaws and swivel base, it is a welcome user in the woodshop. The Starrett bullet is all you want for routine machine shop use. Its smaller frame is ideal for much work, and I treasure the controlled feel that you praise. The sealed screw protection is ideal when heavy grinding debris is an issue. The Prentiss is my largest and heaviest vise with serrated 5" jaws, it is my beast go to. My Wilton Tradesman with 5.5" jaws is my most versatile vise. Serrated 2 swivel clamps, wider jaw to slide ratio allows greater vertical work holding capacity, small anvil, and premium pipe jaws make this a favorite. I mount all my bench vises so the rear jaw face is flush with the workbench face, allowing long vertical workholding. Some bench vise foot designs make this mounting difficult, depending on the bench design. I am a retired hobbyist. I will upgrade when a deal falls in my path, but I am pretty satisfied with the current array. I have collected and given away at least 20 high-quality vises. I grew up without a good vise, and a quality vise was out of my scope as I entered the trades. My goal has included gifting quality tools (including vises) to my offspring. I now have 27 boys and men on my offspring gift list. My vise gifts have included Wilton and Yost. One of my boys is a true vise nerd and collector. He started with a Ridge that I once owned. I don't give him vises, because he has outclassed me. He has a large USA Yost that I envy. Another son features the Snap-On 8" Wilton Tradesman in his shop, making me very envious. His service truck has sported the 3" Wilton that I gave him years ago. I don't contest your conclusions. I value your input. The balance of my vises are drill press, machining, woodshop and even a Panavise.

I must say that if your thesis is correct then why are so many of the square cut/milled vines loose and or cracked

Great Job, What size of cable and breaker did you use?

I love how you included history, I truly love early industrial US history! And really appreciate the way you explain the mechanical differences and benefits of these vises. You have some beautiful vises and the history attached to each piece really contributes to the beauty of the collection. I enjoyed this video, thank you!

Hey Terry, hope all's well. Just found your site while looking to troubleshoot an issue with a Craftsman 113.12005 from a table saw. This vid's only two days old so I thought I'd send this along in hopes you'd see it. This motor came on a nice '64 saw I scored for free 👍. I've had it apart and brushed, blown and detailed up everything and it's spankin' clean however, the replacement of the spacer washers is the fly in the ointment. I believe two were seated in the forward bell between the tension ring and the bearing. Now . . . the other five. FIVE?? Obviously into the rear bell however, I've looked at length for an ops manual with no success and have been turning to sites & vids. Obviously can't send pics along here but certainly can via email. If you have a convenient minute to get back I'd appreciate that greatly.

A shop that I was working at, updated with about ten new work benches in our toolroom. Ten new benches with ten new vises. They cheaped out on buying quality vises, bought some Wilton knock offs made in China. They looked nice and worked reasonably good until someone would really crank down on lead screw. The nut was similar to the wilton only made out of some really crap cast iron. Every one of those vises broke the flange off of the nut inside. I eventually made steel replacement and when they decided to get rid of those vices and bought new ones, I got to keep my repaired one. Still have it after 40 years, works good.

That was a great haul! I love the highway torch, and the clamp! Super cool items!

You got some really cool and interesting stuff, Would be great if you can make a detailed video of that spark plug, it's really unique never saw one like that. I know the lighthouse spark plugs that you can see the arcing but this is different. With the old petrol/oil memorobilia you can't go wrong with them, they make a great showpiece.

Thank you for sharing. Very nice, I really like the spark plug. 👍

What you call c clamps we call g clamps 😊

Thank you for posting this. I have recently come into possession of a machinist's toolbox just like the one on your video. Excellent work.

Hey Terry! Been a while, glad to see some new videos. I finally got the base painted on my WT table saw and wanted to get your thoughts on paint for the underside of the table top/wings. I removed the original paint underneath and they've been covered now for a couple years. Surprisingly they've held up well and almost no rust. I was going to paint them, but what are your thoughts? Would it be just as well to put a lubricant coat on them and leave it, or clean and paint? There's residue so I'd have to clean them or media blast to get a surface that would accept paint. If cleaning to prep for paint, what would you recommend? I know media blasting is frowned on because it alters the original surface. Also, what a transformation on this piece!

These are so cool. Where can you find those variable speed motors? I would love to get one

Great video. I learned alot.

That Reed is a work of art.

Thanks very much for the video. Yeah, you got some real goodies. They’re not like today’s motors when capacitors blow up and start windings blow up when they made things back in the day they made them 32 years of electrician being in a power plant. Yeah, some of our stuff in our power plant soul to but still works. Thanks again.

Like your work on old motors. Would you happen to know of a place that could rewind the armature of an old repulsion motor?

My father got a nearly identical lathe for his basement workshop. I think it was called a "Junior 10 inch" and was considered heavy duty. As a kid thats what I learned on. I remember splicing a new flatbelt with traditional gut. Most of the change gears were missing so we could only cut a few thread pitches. For power feed I had jury rigged an old time phonograph motor drive to slowly turn the main feed screw. Still works great. When I was in high school he bought an even older 15 inch South Bend in like new condition. He drove it with an overhead three speed gear box outputting to the flat belt. It was only used for larger work that required a big four jaw or the huge faceplate. It is still a museum piece. In college I restored a surplus pile of 10K's all with quick change and v belt drives and still use one in my garage at home today.

What would it be worth these days? Not that I would sell it!! Mal in au.

Hi Mal in Australia , I have a 5” Reed . No 105. Bought it a few yrs ago for $ 70 au, best 70 bucks I ever spent,love itCheers Mal in au.

Terry I hope you were kidding about that bucket of awesomeness going to the trash bin! Have you priced springs lately? Advertising screwdrivers? More like bucket of gold!

Wow what a find

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Great video! I heard thunder in the background in the beginning. Like watching an old horror movie. After watching this, My confidence goes way up to work on a motor. Thanks for the lesson.

I have two Reed 3C vises. They are brutes. They beat just about any cast vise made today.

ALL the Charles Parker vises I have are with SWIVEL Bases . Which Eliminates the need to make a Spacer OR notch your work bench I have 11 Parker Bench vises including a "Baby" Parker , designed exactly like its Big Brothers : )

FYI the Athol machine Company located in ATHOL Mass. Made SIMPSON vises originally . The Simpson vises where Developed by the Bailey Wringing Machine co . about 1874

VISE Jaws are NOT intended to be STRUCK or HAMMERED on . That's what ANVILS are for . I have a wilton 4 inch vise in my shop thats been through "HELL" and Back . Hammered on , Welded on , Grinded on , and STILL retains its Smoothness and Rigidity . thats AFTER 45 YEARS of Service : ) Its gotten quite Ugly over the decades but still WORKS as it was Intended

I have over 135 Bench vises in my collection . By FAR the BEST Precise, Smoothest and Beautiful vises are the Wilton series . But I do agree , IF your want a SUPER Heavy duty Vise the COLOMBIAN or Parker vises are where to Go ...I also have a Huge collection of Jeweler vises , Machinist vises and Toolmakers Vises . Some Woodworking vises and Sheet metal speciality vises also . I have vises from 1/2 inch wide jaws to 12 inch jaw shaper vises ... Cheers ~

What were motors like these used for?

Best vice ever….desmond Steven’s all steel slide it beats all others…Wilton is living on its former glory it can be broken easily.

Put a few amps through damp field windings with a bench power supply... It'll gently warm it up and drive out the damp.... Then subject the field to a 10 min insulation test.......to polarise the insulation and provide better values... ☹️🇬🇧

I have an old Craftsman 1/2 hp electric motor, model 115.5764. It has some problems, one of which I caused. I need some advice. Can we communicate via email or text?

Enjoy your videos. If you could create a video on vintage meggers, I believe it would be very interesting. How to test for function, accuracy, restoring, calibrating, etc.. Thanks….

Thank you for sharing. Very nice, I really like the black, fantastic job.👍