Big *** motor

[Garage5.9]

Being the rubbish picker that i am i couldn't resist to not dig this out of the dumpster while cleaning up my grand parents house. Ive been thinking about what i could possibly use it for and got to thinking of putting on my compressor witch is a crapsman 30 gallon oil less.Thinking of buying a new compressor head and running it with this motor ? is it over kill or even worth while ? i know this motor is really old circa 1950's but runs really smooth and quite. Its name plate says valley electric

 

[Aceman]

What's the HP?

It's kind of a crapshoot really. It'd **** to bolt that whole thing up, buy pulley's for it etc and have it **** out. I'd take it to a motor rewind shop and have them check it out first.

 

[ishiboo]

There's a lot of copper in that thing, definitely not dumpster material even if it's shot!

 

[rsanter]

if the motor runs and is smooth with no noise and all it will likly run for a long time

you can open the motor and verify that nothing has been overheated and that the bearings are good

bob

 

[CADPoint]

I agree with getting it checked out, right off it looks like the bearing packing is leaking.

But it all depends on what's in the Peckerhead in respects to the wiring methods of the motor. You'll be lucky if is just a 240/ 2 pole with neutral squirrel cage motor. I'll assume that you have this but per the size your about over the size of a type squirrel cage motor. Most popular motors are the typical squirrel cage, like your fan blow in da house.

Don't let the motor shop snoker You. Call ahead for pricing and service mechanic time. I doult it'll be flat hourly rate. Or even a one price covers all either. Call two Shops / shop around.

Scrap price is deceptive, they will (locally) give a price per unit of a motor but that's not refective of copper price. Remember they have to break it down for the copper.

If you do scrap it, rip the good stuff out yourself and it will only be 1/3 +- or less of the total weight of the motor. In other world's your working for the price of copper/per hour of distruction, depending on the shadness of your scrapper Cu is + - 3.00/lb. The magnets is nothing special to the Scrapper and will not pay nor express special interest in front of you, the remained of the bulk of the steel is +- $6 per 100/lb.

Take the Fier tool to it, if required!

 

[Elroy]

If you decide to scrap it, a simple rule of thumb you can anticipate about one dollar per horsepower in scrap

But then again copper is going up and if you feel the need to rip something apart you can do better.

The grease on the shaft bell is not a good sign. It has issues

 

[1Garageman]

I am curious to see what you do also. I have the same crapsman loudass air compressor you do! I was wondering if I just replace the motor. Keep us posted.

 

[Garage5.9]

Right now I think making the compressor is out of the question because its still tuning don't want to fix something that doesn't need fixing. I think its 1 1/2 hp if I read it correctly. I got to thinking and maybe I could make a grinder out of it ? But not exactly sure I would go about doing this any dead?

 

[1Garageman]

I have a small motor from an old drill press and I was thinking of making a disk sander or something like that out of it. I do some wood working and that would be handy for me.

 

[Phabask]

I have rebuilt old motors like that they are way over built and will run for ever, just not as efficient as the new ones out there and hole lot heavier, check name plate data, would also use a motor starter for it (magnetic starter) more than likely it doesnt have internal
overload

 

[Full Size 66]

With the soda cup in the picture for size, what makes this a big motor? I am not trying to be cruel but that is not all that big...

 

[Garage5.9]

Im not around motors much nor do.I really work around or with them so I consider it big in my opinion. That's all

 

[1Garageman]

Im not around motors much nor do.I really work around or with them so I consider it big in my opinion. That's all

It's your shop/garage/area do what you want to do! Doesn't matter if the motor is big or small, if it gets the job done and it satisfies you then use it!

 

[electrodude]

I'd make an effort to save that motor, you'll find that they're quite well made usually.