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Mike V. Florida · 03-12-2017, 12:55 AM

Anyone here ever tried successfully to rewind a generator armature?

Kurt in NJ · 03-12-2017, 01:48 AM

I did one time , it worked, but was too much trouble---was only payin 3-5$ for cores so it wasn't worth it, did make a few sets of fields when I has acess to the winder and wire

fiddlybits · 03-12-2017, 12:00 PM

yes. Powerhouse. Don't ever want to do it again. Not hard...just a time suck. ;-)

larry harding · 03-14-2017, 05:27 PM

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i was in the home appliance repair business from helping my dad as a kid in the 50's till retiring a few years ago. way back when we would take appliance motors in to a motor shop to be rewound. i saw the work it took to rewind a small motor, believe me they don't do that anymore, to labor intensive. i don't think they will even work on any motor under 5 h.p. everything in appliances went throw away motors. i'm sure starters and generators went the same way a long time ago. it would probably be hard to find the coil winders they used
back in the day.

03-12-2017, 12:55 AM	#1
Mike V. Florida Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: South Florida Posts: 14,054	Rewound an armature Anyone here ever tried successfully to rewind a generator armature? __________________ What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. - Henry Ford II

03-12-2017, 01:48 AM	#2
Kurt in NJ Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: on the Littlefield Posts: 6,156	Re: Rewound an armature I did one time , it worked, but was too much trouble---was only payin 3-5$ for cores so it wasn't worth it, did make a few sets of fields when I has acess to the winder and wire

03-12-2017, 12:00 PM	#3
fiddlybits Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: N Illinois Posts: 447	Re: Rewound an armature yes. Powerhouse. Don't ever want to do it again. Not hard...just a time suck. ;-)

03-14-2017, 05:27 PM	#4
larry harding Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: western n.c. Posts: 393	Re: Rewound an armature Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) i was in the home appliance repair business from helping my dad as a kid in the 50's till retiring a few years ago. way back when we would take appliance motors in to a motor shop to be rewound. i saw the work it took to rewind a small motor, believe me they don't do that anymore, to labor intensive. i don't think they will even work on any motor under 5 h.p. everything in appliances went throw away motors. i'm sure starters and generators went the same way a long time ago. it would probably be hard to find the coil winders they used back in the day.