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Originally Posted by WallShadow
An open question: how much skilled training is required to rewind motor armatures, small-to-medium transfomers, and the like?
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Not that much. I have actually done this working at Sharon Steel during the summers of my college years. Davey Crocket (our 250 Ton Overhead Crane) required his armatures re-wrapped every year as there were NO replacement armatures available for him (he was built in 1911 and still in service in 1991 when the Open Hearth shut down).
I have spent MANY A DAY combing a junk yard for parts to the older machinery we used to farm with. Repurposing is a way of life on the smaller family farms prevalent in the Northeastern US. If you drive "out in the country" in PA, you will often see rows of derelict vehicles near farms. These are not actually "derelicts," but rather supplies of nuts, bolts, wire and steel that can be used to repair the machines still in use on that farm.