Alemite Electric Airless Paint Pump/Sprayer Unit

[antiquesfanatic]

Hey, I’m new here, but I’m already falling in love with the website. Perfect place for a guy like me. A little bit about me, I just recently this year started collecting Alemite equipment and memorabilia as well as antique tools I have found in lots on eBay for a good price. I went to an estate sale in April, and I got to haul away literally tons of great stuff: A Sears-Craftsman radial saw, 40-50 corded Bosch tools from the 60s-70s, truckloads of rare antiques, and the list goes on. The guy who owned the place was a machinist and had an old barn made of two shipping containers with A-frame metal roof between them. In the top loft on one of the shipping containers was this Alemite paint sprayer unit. Weighed almost 300lbs easily. I found it under a protective fitted cover and the sprayer nozzle for it downstairs in the barn. I have some photos of it and the best photos I could get of the model information and instructions on the back. I am asking help from anyone who knows more about this. I can find hardly any information online. There is one post from a website called Michigan blog spot from well over a decade ago with this same unit, and they had the same problem as me - seemingly next to nothing in terms of searchable information anywhere. It has some wear on the model number tag from Stewart-Warner which doesn’t make this any easier, but the unit still runs amazing, has no rust that I can tell, and is in overall amazing condition for the age of it (I’m thinking 1959-1965 based on a patent design I saw from Alemite, lost the link to it and can’t find it but will update it to this post if I do). The serial on it seems to say “P8” which I find very odd to only be 2 characters. Model number either reads “7905 4” or “7935 4” (can’t make out the third digit). Anyone with ANY info on this unit is welcome to post. Otherwise I hope you enjoy this find, because I think this is a very rare machine that they produced for a short period of time for a niche audience. I’m very proud to own it, and would like to give it a second life. I am also not sure if I should clean it up and try to restore it or leave it as is, (was hoping someone may have some suggestions on that also). Thanks for reading! Happy picking.