05-02-2018, 12:03 PM
Armature winding on small motors is a thing of the past. Very time consuming(hourly rate) and the armature requires precise balancing otherwise excessive sparking at the brushes, even when the armature has just been rewind and the bearing soon fail. I've never seen rewind shop in UK with a precise balancer for small armatures, we throw armature away here in UK. Go to the third world and you will get it fixed almost by return and they do have balancers, often made in Italy. Being interested in rewinds, I was a few years ago in Istanbul and was walking along a road and smelt the odour of hot varnish, my nose took me to a very small winders shop. The owner spoke some English, I asked him where do you get fine gauge wire from, the TV repair people he replied. I then located the TV people, boys were removing the scan coil wire, winding it onto bobbing's ready for rewinding. Other lads were stripping boards, some were testing resistor, capacitors and transistors quite a recycle/cottage industry. All component were moved up the street to the TV repair men/lads. Every thing is repairable in the third world. Ted
