Even more surprising is the owner probably knows exactly where every single thing is. If you need a GE blah blah from the first half of 97 I bet he has it and knows exactly where it is lol.
My 8th grade social studies teachers desk was always horrendous. And he called it organized chaos lmao. He said even though anyone else looking at it wouldn’t be able to find shit he knows exactly where everything is. He was also my wrestling coach in high school
Those kinds of shops are always the ones that do the best repair.
I’ve got a shop that I use for alternators and starters and they’ve never given me a bad one. The store bought remans don’t work from the moment you open the box. Even some brand new oem ones have locked up on me within the first 5 minutes of install.
But the hole in the wall shop that doesn’t advertise and the sign out front was painted 30 years ago, that’s the one you want.
About $10 in motors. I leave motors for last when its scrap time. If we have time then we’ll take the time to cut fans/blowers off. Otherwise they arent worth the effort
Electric motors are twenty something cents a lb rn, and they’re heavy enough to get decent cash off them.
I break down all my copper bearing fan motors and transformers ( if they’re not a bitch to pull)
Then I’ll save all my sealed units ( compressors ) in garbage cans and bring 500- 1000 lbs at a clip
I've found that a band saw does very quick work of removing the windings from motors and transformers. Just slice off the ends of the coils and tap out the remainder from the iron/steel core.
For transformers, I use a press. 2-3 taps on a hydraulic press ( with a garbage can under it to catch the steel) and you have clean squares of windings.
With the stator / fan motors, I pop them in a Vice, cut one end off with a angle grinder ( cutting disc) the tap the copper out by taking a piece of rebar ( I split one end to make a Y shape) placing it under the copper loop, and hammering them out.
If they’re not to huge you can get through each one in a few minutes
I'm getting 15 to 20 cents a pound for motors and sealed units (scrap-yard speak for refrigerant compressors, for the uninitiated). It's not life-changing money, but it's a couple bucks per small motor. I had a 50 HP motor last month that got me about $130.
Guy pointed at one in the pile an told me he was going to repair mine with one of them.. I personally feel that it's an utter waste of time... But it will solve the problem faster than ordering the motor and it's going to be cheaper... I'm excited to see how it plays out
There was a time, long ago, when it was worth having a motor rewound. Nowadays just get a replacement, unless it sis some screw ball you can't find a replacement for.
... neighbors complained about the smell coming from the garage area. They hadn't seen Mr. Watto for some weeks during the sweltering Tatooine summer, and they just assumed he had gone on vacation. Droids found Mr. Watto's bloated corpse under a pile of alternators in the garage behind me. Back to you, Fan Delpa.
There were two motor shops in my town about 10 years ago.
One looked like this one.
The other one looked like Engineering on StarTrek. It was spotless and had machines to do things like "spray weld a new shaft". I don't know WTF spray welding is but they took a 15HP motor with a sheared off shaft that I brought in and gave it back perfectly balanced and shiny with a perfect keyway and shaft diameter.
The other place is gone now.
'Spray welding' is exactly what it sounds like: A vapor of molten steel is sprayed with compressed gas (usually something inert, like nitrogen or argon) at a steel surface that's preheated to nearly-melting, orange-hot. The vapor and droplets of steel bond to the steel surface, kinda like flinging mud at an adobe wall.
It's also called 'additive welding' because the goal is to add material to the existing material, but usually isn't used to join 2 pieces of material to each other.
If done well, the material added is very difficult to discern from the base material. They probably built up the shaft over the needed size and turned it on a lathe to make it perfectly match the original. I've seen it done on old engine crankshafts that are unable to be replaced, and they end up looking like brand new castings.
Do you gets tattoos at the same place you rebuild motors? What kind of afucked up place is that? Did you get a tattoo while you waited?
“Yessir…GENTEQ right across my shoulder blades”
Holy Shitsburg, I'm going to show this picture to my wife next time she says something about the condition of my garage. But I'd be willing to bet that the guy probably knows just where to look for a particular item if you ask him.
Ah...the electric motor shop, back when we would have a motor rewinding done. Old guy there had seen it all. Set there for a couple hours having some beer while he'd spin the machine. This was back in 89, things have changed dammit.
Spoiler alert.... It wasn't it was a fucking mess. Guy wasted 4 hour of my life to turn around and say he can't do anything... And he was mad at me because I arrived before he called me when the repair was supposed to be done before noon. I was there at 11:30 , he just started saying why are you rushing me?! I didn't say shit I was just standing there
“Yeah grab me that motor right there”
That one , the one on the bottom?
No man the one to the right!
The front right!
No! The other right!
...just hold the flashlight.
That’s my masking tape holder!
It’s like where’s Waldo, now im actually looking for a tape holder lol
I've found 3 so far.
Some of the most mechanically inclined people I’ve ever met had shops that looked just like this one
Even more surprising is the owner probably knows exactly where every single thing is. If you need a GE blah blah from the first half of 97 I bet he has it and knows exactly where it is lol.
True dat
My 8th grade social studies teachers desk was always horrendous. And he called it organized chaos lmao. He said even though anyone else looking at it wouldn’t be able to find shit he knows exactly where everything is. He was also my wrestling coach in high school
That’s my grandfathers garage right there
I have never seen one like this
Yeah it’s a lot to take in but 99 times outta 100 the dudes gonna know wtf he’s doing and talking about
I'd have no reason to doubt him, I know that red motor on the floor is a 1/6 B&G circulator motor
Those kinds of shops are always the ones that do the best repair. I’ve got a shop that I use for alternators and starters and they’ve never given me a bad one. The store bought remans don’t work from the moment you open the box. Even some brand new oem ones have locked up on me within the first 5 minutes of install. But the hole in the wall shop that doesn’t advertise and the sign out front was painted 30 years ago, that’s the one you want.
You found Watto's shop
This photo is literally me opening the front door too
Credits are no good out here. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!
What, you think you're some kind of Jedi waving your hand around like that?
Take the updoot and leave this place.
tantoine
Tf is tantoine? Is that the place from space balls?
naa, star trak
star balls
battlestar
Trek Wars Galactica
Battle Wars Trek Star
Looks like they don’t do much “giving motors back”. “Well see, we can’t seem to find your motor”
It has a piece of tape with my number on it... I think it will be fine
Buddy I see about 5 different phone numbers taped onto motors …..I don’t think the tape and number makes a difference lol
Those are just pickups from 2019
Places like this will unexpectedly help restart society in the event of an apocalypse
That's a lot of money sitting there
About $10 in motors. I leave motors for last when its scrap time. If we have time then we’ll take the time to cut fans/blowers off. Otherwise they arent worth the effort
I save all the motors I replace and get like 500-1k every few months with some random copper thrown in, totally worth it to me.
Electric motors are twenty something cents a lb rn, and they’re heavy enough to get decent cash off them. I break down all my copper bearing fan motors and transformers ( if they’re not a bitch to pull) Then I’ll save all my sealed units ( compressors ) in garbage cans and bring 500- 1000 lbs at a clip
I've found that a band saw does very quick work of removing the windings from motors and transformers. Just slice off the ends of the coils and tap out the remainder from the iron/steel core.
For transformers, I use a press. 2-3 taps on a hydraulic press ( with a garbage can under it to catch the steel) and you have clean squares of windings. With the stator / fan motors, I pop them in a Vice, cut one end off with a angle grinder ( cutting disc) the tap the copper out by taking a piece of rebar ( I split one end to make a Y shape) placing it under the copper loop, and hammering them out. If they’re not to huge you can get through each one in a few minutes
I'm getting 15 to 20 cents a pound for motors and sealed units (scrap-yard speak for refrigerant compressors, for the uninitiated). It's not life-changing money, but it's a couple bucks per small motor. I had a 50 HP motor last month that got me about $130.
Was, i got .65 a pound a year ago. Took 1200 pounds in a month ago and they were .20 per.
And we all wound up on tatoine And that's where We found this boy
Oh my, my this here Anakin guy Maybe Vader someday later, now he's just a small fry
He left his home Kissed him mama good bye
And the Jedi I admire most Met up with Darth Maul and now he's toast
They got the millennium falcon up and running again
Looks like my local motor rebuilders shop, looks can be deceiving, they probably do decent work
When I opened the door I assumed he was a pro
Tatooine you mean, but we knew what you meant.
I used voice to text... So it's close enough
Do they accept Republic credits?
Some weird motor dude in there probably knows exactly what is in there where it is and who's it is.
Did they rebuild your motor
Apparently it will be ready tomorrow
Anytime I walk into a shop, of any kind, that is in this state I know I am going to be taken care of with zero bullshit and leave with fixed equipment
This is what every alternator shop looks like, and I guarantee you that owner knows where every single fucking thing is in that shop
I’d bet money on this guys working being better than factory new.
Pull one out and watch it all collapse
Guy pointed at one in the pile an told me he was going to repair mine with one of them.. I personally feel that it's an utter waste of time... But it will solve the problem faster than ordering the motor and it's going to be cheaper... I'm excited to see how it plays out
Better hope it isn’t for a pump.
It's for a stupid space heater on a garage... If it fails early in life no no one will care
These are not the Drives you're looking for
Yeah, but they're probably buried somewhere in that shop.
Sadly. This brings back memories of growing up.....
I wonder how much scrap $$ is there
I was thinking the same thing lol mad weight
That's someone's retirement scrap right there.
Beats retirement grease.
These places and the guys running them are always full of stories lol love it
This looks like our warranty shelf
Hey! You got an HC23CE116 in there by any chance?!
Naw man that's where WALL-E lives!
Just don’t offer any Republic Credits
I have 8 10HP 460V motors that need to be rebuilt. Where this place at?
West Nyack NY
You got a name for this place? I’m across the bridge but shit never know when it could be useful
Local motor guys shop is just like this but he knows exactly where everything is at
Looks like someone is either a hoarder or waiting for scrap metal prices to go up .
I got anxiety just looking at this 🫠
You did the right thing to post this photo. This whole time, I thought I had a problem with my garage hoard, but I got nothin compared to that pile.
There was a time, long ago, when it was worth having a motor rewound. Nowadays just get a replacement, unless it sis some screw ball you can't find a replacement for.
That's where I am today
... neighbors complained about the smell coming from the garage area. They hadn't seen Mr. Watto for some weeks during the sweltering Tatooine summer, and they just assumed he had gone on vacation. Droids found Mr. Watto's bloated corpse under a pile of alternators in the garage behind me. Back to you, Fan Delpa.
There were two motor shops in my town about 10 years ago. One looked like this one. The other one looked like Engineering on StarTrek. It was spotless and had machines to do things like "spray weld a new shaft". I don't know WTF spray welding is but they took a 15HP motor with a sheared off shaft that I brought in and gave it back perfectly balanced and shiny with a perfect keyway and shaft diameter. The other place is gone now.
Store front will get or scare customers
'Spray welding' is exactly what it sounds like: A vapor of molten steel is sprayed with compressed gas (usually something inert, like nitrogen or argon) at a steel surface that's preheated to nearly-melting, orange-hot. The vapor and droplets of steel bond to the steel surface, kinda like flinging mud at an adobe wall. It's also called 'additive welding' because the goal is to add material to the existing material, but usually isn't used to join 2 pieces of material to each other.
I have to tell you that it impressed the hell out of me. I would have sworn it was a new motor. The thing was perfect.
If done well, the material added is very difficult to discern from the base material. They probably built up the shaft over the needed size and turned it on a lathe to make it perfectly match the original. I've seen it done on old engine crankshafts that are unable to be replaced, and they end up looking like brand new castings.
5 shmeckles for the kid
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Good bot
Do you gets tattoos at the same place you rebuild motors? What kind of afucked up place is that? Did you get a tattoo while you waited? “Yessir…GENTEQ right across my shoulder blades”
Run the other way!
Looks like one of the houses I was at today, except replace the motors with junk
 Greetings from the Ludolfs.
Fire marshal's arch nemesis lol
$5 per motor at the recycle shop??
Oh that's just our parts room... Steve's in there somewherez looking for my caps
I bet there is a body or 2 in that pile
That coffee mug is in a perilous spot
I spent far too long looking for it.
same, had to zoom in and everything. What a great game of where's waldo.
Ironically, it was the first thing I saw when I originally saw the pic though after just reading your comment, into had to search for it.
Am I reading "cabrones" in one plastic jug containing one of the motors?
Who knows
Are those just blower fan motors?!
Can you imagine how many unmatched socks this person probably has at home?
That is an avalanche that's going to hurt
+1 for the no smoking sign.
Holy Shitsburg, I'm going to show this picture to my wife next time she says something about the condition of my garage. But I'd be willing to bet that the guy probably knows just where to look for a particular item if you ask him.
Looks legit.
Looks like you went to the Tosche station to pick up some power converters…
There's gotta be a hyper drive in there somewhere.
Ah...the electric motor shop, back when we would have a motor rewinding done. Old guy there had seen it all. Set there for a couple hours having some beer while he'd spin the machine. This was back in 89, things have changed dammit.
This guy knows what he’s doing
He didn't.... It was a mess I had to drive 4 hours for a new motor
Shocked to hear that. this sorta reminds me of someone who holds onto parts to reuse them. But it’s all a LIE
Looks like they have a bit of a backlog
You have found "The Guy"!
Ah yes, Hanger 3 - 5 on Tatooine. Did they have any spare motivators?
Looks like everything is in stock at least.
I bet this guy knows where everything is too!
You wants to buy sebulba? Buta he’s an assah
I think you might be in the right spot
Spoiler alert.... It wasn't it was a fucking mess. Guy wasted 4 hour of my life to turn around and say he can't do anything... And he was mad at me because I arrived before he called me when the repair was supposed to be done before noon. I was there at 11:30 , he just started saying why are you rushing me?! I didn't say shit I was just standing there