Antique Century Motor Restoration | 70 Year Old Electric Repulsion Induction Motor Rescued!
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2019
- Sorry in advance for the funky vertical formatted bits, this video wasn't planned!!
This Century Electric Motor Co. Repulsion Start Induction Run AC motor came to me in the base of my Delta Milwaukee 14" Band Saw • Delta 14" Band Saw Res... . When we first met, she didnt run properly. Tons if noise, insane sparking brushes as she ran, something was wrong! Fortunately, I refused to give up on her! I took her to three electric motor shops, and was told three times to strip the copper out and scrap her. Not a chance! I consulted experts online, was pointed to incredible resources at VintageMachinery.org and set about getting her running. Half of her carbon brushes were broken and NOS brushes for this motor dried up decades ago. Her inner workings were gummed up severely and her moving parts essentially frozen. After a good cleaning and disassembly as well as some sand blasting and Evapo-Rust, she was again internally moving as designed. New cork washers were cut to replace the broken ones and we were nearly back in the fight. I was fortunate enough to meet Scott at REPCO, a New Jersey based carbon brush and contactor switch distributor. Scott has been selling brushes for 30 years!! He was able to find me some precision ground brush "blanks" that I sized and tapered in my mill. They fit like a glove! To celebrate the awakening of this old girl, I made a silly video that blew up on Reddit. I received tons of requests for a video so here we are.
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I like your appreciation of the old prior technology. It's interesting to see how we arrived at the technology we have today. I really loved the dramatic music. You look like you know your stuff.
Nice video!!!
Congratulations on fixing that motor man, Nice video where you show everything. Everybody said this motor was dead and you made it alive again, Respect man!
Thanks Christofix!! Lot of love went into those windings
I have one of these on my workbench right now - it works but is filthy and this video has given me the confidence to open it up and clean it for my restored drill press. Thanks.,
Awesome job brother good to see a good motor come back to life
Thanks brother!
That's one heck of a centrifugal switch their very cool
So cool! Took me a while to figure out what I was looking at but in time and with some help, it all came together. I have a few monster motors lined up to restore, make sure you sub, they’ll be happening soon
And she purrs like a kitten. Good job.
MMEEEEOOOWWWW
Good stuff man! Love that sound when it turns on and the plug in drama was awesome lol
Great rebuild. When working with motors that are dirty and greasy, electrical contact cleaner does a great job.
Ah! I didn’t know there was such a thing. I’ll get myself some! Thank you and thanks for watching!
RI motors are awesome. Vintage machinery !
They're the best! if not fun to work on and enjoy
Great video! Great restore 🙂 also loved the added drama 😁
Hahaha, twas necessary for this one!😂 so many motor pros genuinely told me to trash it.
Came from Reddit, can't wait to see some content from you bud.
Thanks Jonathan! Welcome aboard!
Loved your video. Entertaining with a good amount of Know-how. Exactly what I’m looking for 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Definitely got my sub
5:06 She didn't give in without a fight!
1:14 hold for just one second. It is safe to clean windings with solvent? Can I do it with WD-40? I thought the solvent would damage the enamel on the copper winding wires.
Good job man😊
Good bro 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏
yes！incredible！
Super sir
Everything can be fixed expecially this older stuff it’s the junk it mentality that people possess today is why they sale push mowers without drain plugs 🤦♂️great job 👍
Hey Dave, great video! I am trying to rebuild my motor too, and are wondering what you used to clean everything and how you changed the wiring. I am not experienced with rebuilding these but still want to try and tackle this myself. Any info you can share would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Drama queen!!...nice improv on the brushes!
Hey Dave. Any chance you’re considering making a more in-depth restoration video of a vintage electric motor? Oh let’s say for example, an early 40’s Craftsman type? Covering rewiring, finding and replacement of flat capacitors, bearings, etc. Asking for a friend........... who’s probably restoring a ‘41 Craftsman wood lathe and ‘41 Craftsman Bandsaw and hoping to stay with the Craftsman vibe by including motors that were originally sold with these models. He may or may not have taken one apart initially and had the old wires disconnect before taking pictures of where everything went. Not that he’s an idiot or anything..........
Thanks bud. Great remodel by the way. Take care.
Matt
Matt send me some pics on IG and I’ll see if I can get you squared away
Thanks for the video, nice rebuild. I’m about to restore a similar 1950, 1hp. There’s a clicking I’m hearing in my motor. I’m only guessing it’s the centrifugal switch. At 1:45 of your video yours appears to have tension to it. At 3:45 it does not and is how mine is always with no tension. Normal? I assume not.
And it only cost you three fingers,way to go sparky.
Lol. I see what you did there
How do you remove the centripetal assembly? How is it held in? Mine is stuck and bending.
Hi Dave. Love the old Century motors. Thanks for sharing yours here! I have a 94 year old Century repulsion-start motor; in its original application. It's part of a Frigidaire refrigerator. Belt-driven sulphur dioxide compressor system. The older Century motor seems to be almost identical to yours, mechanically. The housing design is a little different, though. Mine has ring-oiled journal bearings.
The experts told me similar stories as well. They said this motor would never run again, and the massive iron flywheel had forever been silenced by the passage of time. They told me that the corroded copper coils within, would never see frost again. I had a silent relic with only memories to be read on a museum plaque.
In the end, they were gravely mistaken. czcams.com/video/LdFclxIDY5k/video.html
Awesome retro. Question, I have a vintage GE motor. Need to replace start condenser, is there a positive and neg wire attachment? If so, how to I tell which connection is the positive side?
Thx
We have these on our Flume and Multifix motors we rebuilt the two Flumes recently, we just call them Repulsion motors. Does yours have a speed controller or are you going to just set it and run it at an adjusted set speed? If adjustable did not see well enough during the filming.
These motors are incredible and can do a lot of controlled speed work so of course we are happy to see you save this guy.
We love your motor because we have so many vintage motors for our projects here to be date period correct during rebuilds for our shop.
Thank you for sharing a piece of American history. Lance & Patrick.
This one had no speed control gents, perhaps a bit different than yours. Thanks for keeping yours alive as well!!
Man what did you do to your fingers,could'nt help notice,but great work on that motor,have restored one myself,but not quite as old as yours
Nice job fella. Where did you find the motor ???
what kind of oil/grease do ya put in the lil oiler holes on each end?
I have a VERY old marathon 1/6 h.p motor. What type of “thrust washers/spacers” should I use to replace the old brittle ones, they don’t even feel metal anymore, they crack like plastic. But the machine is 80 years old lol. Tia
What type of oil is used in the oil cups? I am new to rebuilding electric motors.
Good thing it was only a 3/4 HP motor, otherwise you would’ve needed all 10 fingers to restore! Good save 😁
Hahahahaha!!! I did most of the work with my toes (off camera)
never seen that type of motor, were I worked we had big motors from the 30's still going but nothing like that.
Yeah she’s an old enough gal. Definitely packing some outmoded tech!
Did he hurt his hand in the process?
Are those little caps over the bearings for lubrication? Ive got a 40's wagner rep/ind 1hp motor and it has the same thing. 204 frame
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@Marcellus Jeremias Yup, been using Flixzone for years myself :D
dave
i have a 1/4 horse attic fan motor 1750 rpm 1950 s old .its a century brushless . i used a wire wheel to clean the inner windings then i cleaned the center shaft rotor with a wire wheel i exposed some of the windings to a bright copper color on the inner windings .. i replaced the heat stat and capacitor.... the motor turns on gets hot charters and shuts off ? any suggestions? thanks
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Very nice. Do you have an electrical background ?
Joe Fischer I’ve shocked myself a few times, does that count? Absolutely none, just some home electrical.
Is mineral spirits all you used?
Yeah pretty much.
Hi excuse me please what kind of a electric motor is this?
Looks good not painted!
I appreciate restores like the next guy or gal, but saddened when it's ruined by a gaudy paint job...
Yeah I’d agree with you on this one. She had tons of character!! I find myself repainting the rusty hogged out ones, but she was well loved throughout the years.
"everybody" said it couldn't be fixed? that's an easy rebuild.
How did you re-wire that coil?
Didn’t. I just spliced in new wire where the crappy leads going out were.
I figured out how to do it. What a pain. Thanks for the reply.
Can you repair my 40 yr old motor that operates my elevator?
👍👍👍😂😂😂
Haha
no one likes a recovery video like this =[
Hey Dave,,have an old 1950's Craftsman 1/2 hp tore down on my bench now...I faith that it too will run once again. Check it out on my channel @ Bears Rod Shop,,,glad to be a new subscriber, great video, Bear
Hi there. Good job of doing it up. I'm a little bit of a collecter of these. Here is a link to my 1.5hp disc sander which is powered by one.
czcams.com/video/VvFso1cZUP0/video.html
At the end when you run it it should be a little quieter. I think making a shim or two up for the shaft where the fibre shims are would make that motor run even better
Great job Dave but word of advice. Never shoot in vertical or portrait mode. Awesome work.
I rather enjoyed the incredibly unnecessary dramatic reveal.
Here for you Vinny.
@@partsandresto You work on this stuff a lot? Maybe I could get some motor wisdom from you. I have a 1920's single phase AC motor that was running, but when I looked inside all the wire insulation was pretty crusty. Can you rewind these things? Where do I even start? I've torn apart plenty of gas engines but motors are foreign to me.