Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Being new here, I thought I would share my current windmill project along with some pics. I picked this opened-geared Fairbanks Morse about 6 years ago. I did some extensive work on it at the time, but the project got shelved until recently. I have a friend helping me out with a 20 ft. tower and she will be up and running very soon. I haven't been around as many mills as many of you fellas here likely have, but this one is about as simple and straightforward as you could get with a minimum number of parts.

Nice work.

Very nice Jason, that was their second steel mill. That tin work is in excellent condition. Thumbs up to you!!!

Good job !

Nice Sheetmetal!

I have one also, I think it's the earlier rendition. I have no sheet metal. I did find an old vane sheet that fits the original I believe. I have not started on it yet, as there are others I'm in the middle of.

Nice mill so far. I'm interested in your progress!

Here a question for you experts here..I helped a co-worker with his Steel Eclipse WG. It would appear the fan, spokes, vane sheet and hub might interchange with this mill. I do know the main shaft also threads on to the worm gear as it does the pinion on this mill..so maybe that would be the same too.

I have some WG mills. I can measure the hub holes if you wish. Looks like both are 6 section, so that's a good start.

Sure..that would be nice if you would. It's just food for thought. I would venture to guess that many of the companys when first introducing oil bath mills may have reached out to customers who had their previous mills to upgrade..and they would have liked that transition to be as seamless as possible.

Thats one reason why Aermotor took over the market. You could carry over your fan and vane to the new Oil-bath model. Looking at the hub it looks like Steel Eclipse Hub.