we need to preserve antique electric motors

[gocartwasher]

they are as nice and valuable as washers & vacuums ,well made like this old frigidaire belt driven motor with the name cast into the cover,very nice ,was thrown into the trash I rescued it & got it running today ,well biult ,has brushes to start it up ,
Chuck

 

[nasadowsk]

Oh yeah, those old AC motors will run *forever*. I know places with 50 year old ones in daily use.

 

[hydralique]

Wow!

I really like the way "Frigidaire" is cast into the motor end plate; it shows a real appreciation of design and also a feeling of pride on the part of the manufacturer. It looks to me like the little right-angle tube is for oiling, which means the motor was meant to be serviced. Nobody likes having to have an applicance serviced, but imagine how much nicer for the owner of the appliance if the motor looks like this instead of being just a generic grey motor!

 

[tolivac]

I like older motors as well-they are certainly built better than new ones.At one workplace I was at in WashDC-the building was built in 1939-lots of older motors and equipment-Lots of "Crocker-wheeler" motors-and some up to 700Hp!Sadly they fell to the cutting torch in 1997-however still some older GE motors there-and still in use.

 

[58limited]

~I really like the way "Frigidaire" is cast into the motor end plate; it shows a real appreciation of design and also a feeling of pride on the part of the manufacturer.

Too bad that attitude as died out, can't hardly buy anything that is well built anymore, and I just don't see pride of workmanship anymore.

 

[58limited]

But I guess that is why most of us here tend to buy, and appreciate, older stuff.

 

[alr2903]

I wonder what this powered, or did Fridgidaire sell motors for some kind of commercial use, like in a factory or something?

 

[goatfarmer]

I'm thinking an old refrigeration unit. Many of the early ones had the "box" upstairs in the kitcken, and the compressor in the basement.

kennyGF

 

[rp2813]

Early Frigidaire refrigerators had a belt driven compressor in the area below the refrigerator cabinet and that was my first guess too Kenny.

 

[maytagbear]

Frigidaire in the early days....

1918--through the mid Twenties (at least according to ads I have seen-) sold both conversion kits; "Make your icebox a Genuine Frigidaire!" and all-in-one refrigerators.

This is more than likely from a conversion kit.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[alr2903]

thanks for the answers to my question. they all make sense to me. one things for sure if you get bored around here wait a day or two and something Totally New will crop up. Thanks.