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Not Model T but still interesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ls/606781/

Interesting photos and article. Big electric motors, generators and transformer windings.
When I was a kid motor repair shops were easy to find and did all kinds of motor rotor and stator rewinding.
Today it is very hard to find an armature rewinding shop. I use a company in Chicago area to get Model T generator armatures rewound. They can install new shafts and commutators if needed, the only thing they cannot supply is the laminations.

Here is a photo.

Another interesting fact.
Ward Leonard Company has been in business for over 100 years. In the early days they manufactured all kinds of electrical apparatus for early automobiles including reverse current cutouts for Model T Fords.

Hi All ;
I did several Armatures, it is not difficult,but it takes some time .
Toon

Beautiful work you did there

Anthonie

Like Dave said, Nice Work.

what did you use for fish paper?

There was a re-winding shop here for years and also one in Havre. The Havre one was owned by an old man named Al. He rebuilt magnetos, generators, starters, electric motors etc. for many years. His wife, Hazel, could out talk any woman I have ever known. She could make a half hour story out of buying a dozen eggs. "Well, the first carton I checked had two light shelled eggs and you know I like brown shells on eggs I bake with, I don't care so much just for fried eggs or boiled eggs but for baking I just think brown shells are a little better although it might just be something I think that you just can't really tell but it seems to me ................................. "

I was in there one day visiting with the other geezers and Al was going around turning out the 25 watt bulbs in the place. He got done and said. "Well, boys, looks like we've got this one saucered and blowed, I think I'll go home and get my self a beer out of the Fridge, kick the dog out of my chair, sit down and give Hazel a damned good listening to!"

What a great line!! I've told that story a thousand times in the last twenty years. You can go ahead and steal it.

And I KNOW it usually gets a laugh because I am still Chuckling!

saucered and blowed

WOW! Only heard that once in my life before...my grandfather and as a little kid I had to know what it meant. Hint: I am told that my grandmother did not approve of it in public.

People used to pour coffee in their saucer to cool it off and blow on it so it would cool faster.
When it was cool it was "saucered and blowed.'
If you are reading anything else into it ..........

I'm sure my grandmother felt this was done only in greasy diners or in private...

not something my Grandmother apparently approved of in public (or anywhere else I'd bet). Having married an engineer, I'm thinking she thought she'd left that sort of thing behind...my Grandfather tried it once and he was nearly left behind.

An interesting lady whos passing at my early age leaves me with only vague impressions of her, though I do recall not wishing to be on her bad side. Used to love to go to their home to be babysat and saw my first color TV there. What a miracle. It created more static electricity than a Vandegraf Generator. I used to run my arm over the tube as she hollered for me to get away from it. Now THAT was an attractive nusance.

OK. Enough drift. Back to motors.

John E and/or other Model T'rs
Find a thread titled - Period image Tire art - dated 7 21 2010 at 5.06pm. Author was Benjamin L Clarke Sidney MT. It is of an electric motor of about 100hp, Could be a General Electric motor stator of about 1950 vintage. For memory you could see the coil leads sticking out ready to be connected after all the coils were fitted. I have rewound my share of them.
Ron P.
For Memory The Ward Lennard steering system was used for rudder control on large ships and the navy fleet, John E's stators could have been for them. Regards N.