Recent content by WillyBoy

Nice find.

I wasn't there but I saw pictures at a discussion of construction screw-ups. After the HVAC equipment for a large commercial building had been installed and tested, someone decided that the room needed a 1/2 inch copper water pipe directly across the middle of the filter housing door. The only...

I may be missing something here but it seems like the key piece that's needed is a 3-1/2 inch round fixture cover punched for a duplex receptacle.

Oh the horror, with phillips heads, how can we precisely clock the head slots so they shed sawdust?

Here's an option: https://www.electrical4u.net/induction-motor/single-phase-motor-capacitor-calculation-calculator/ This should get you pretty close assuming you have an intact motor data plate with the necessary info on it. After looking through some notes I've taken about motors that I've...

Did that. Engine, pump, air filter. Also, this wasn't the first plug replacement in 20 years, Probably closer to 5 years with maybe 3 hours a year actual use.

For what it's worth . . . . . I have a Honda GC-160 on a power washer that I bought 20 years ago. The shroud on mine is black, not red. Last year I started having a problem with it. It would idle fine. In fact it would idle for an hour with no problems. When the throttle was opened fully to...

I hope it's OK. A long time ago I killed a bench grinder with a wire wheel mounted by trying to work it too hard, bogging down the motor repeatedly until one of the windings "gave up".

Did you slow the motor down enough to have the centrifugal switch energize the start winding? Opening and closing that switch multiple times while the motor is trying to maintain speed can cause the capacitor to fail. It's also possible to overheat the start winding to the point that it fails...

Nice find !!

Those were the days. July to October (I think) 1966. Followed the course through the SPS-10 troubleshooting. Then on to Bainbridge MD.

For nearly as long as ball bearings have been around, the "usual" standard even in the US is metric for OD, ID (bore), and width. Converting the measurements to inches will give you inches to 4 decimal places. There are special bore bearings with the ID or bore in inches. 6202 s are...

I wouldn't want to try pressing that one even with the inner race heated and the shaft frozen. 0.025 mm to 0.075 mm is a more common interference fit. The inner race is only going to stretch so far.

For what it's worth, this is an example of a low budget bearing heater. 10 minutes is usually enough to expand the inner race to either slide in place or to need only a few taps to seat properly. I've used this for fractional horse power motors and other smaller items. Yeah, I know the light...

Interesting. I didn't know there was such a thing.