Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Valuable additional info requested: Did it pump after releather for awhile? Does sucker rod shudder on down stroke? If rod is uncoupled, the sucker rod will feel loose. General advice: Lube of pump rod base or A62 isnt as relevant as having an anti swivel pump pole support in the tower for open top ...

Hey Paul, you should apply some discretion to the quick litmus of distinguishing between an 8 and 10. This tower is a good example where discretion is appropriate. The half step/full step only works with a legitimate Aermotor tower. The test relies on rung spacing per a standardized easy-to-build-up...

There are lots of different entities on the Rez and more specifically the Navajo Rez. The true Navajo tribal lands wells and windmills are handled out of Fort Defiance AZ and mostly done by their own crews. There are also Navajo Partition Lands and Hopi Partition Lands. These lands were created when...

Bart, just rez work and they supply. In some ways I like it, other ways no. Setups with it need good wood pump pole to break as airtight doesnt bend or break. A jammed cylinder on Rez blew the whole side out of a new 16' motor.

Weight of a rod does Influence the pumping capacity. Here is a chart of pumping capacity that Baker has in his 702 book. In the left margin are my handwritten notes of the weight per stick. 20240519_074413.jpg I had one Arizona customer that I sold windmill parts to that sourced his own drop pipe er...

You might talk to Hitzer of Heller Aller hand pumps. They recently had to source a new foundry for their hand pumps. I would have thought that Preferred would centrally buy and then shuffle between stores I know they shuffle other items between stores. Freight is getting to be a major cost factor. F...

So 30 years ago when I moved off grid, positive displacement pumps wouldn't pump a 250' well. There was a solar pumpjack available at that time, maybe from Dankoff? It looked mostly like a regular pumpjack with a DC drive motor. I was saved by inverters just coming on board that were big enough to p...

Fifteen years ago, we did separate windmill and solar installation checklists. That has kept forgotten parts at bay.

Freight companies have gone the way of airlines on how they price. Last month, I got a close 2000# pallet of solar panels. Freight out of the manufacturer Mission Solar in San Antonio was $200 higher than the same out of a CA warehouse. It was about the same distance so that was not a factor. As far...

There is a lot of 18' pipe/rod in NE and KS. The reason is short towers and being easier to pull pipe in