Thats my typical response for tight-ass dip-s**ts like yourself. While you're out buying that motor you might wanna spring for two of them since you seem to be so intent on "cramming it full of oil". Hopefully you got a quart in each oil port. THey need lots of oil to run efficiently. By the way..........my system is running perfectly and efficiently. It's very cool and dehumidified in here with the recent hot and muggy spell. Looks like you might need a bug zapper too. My bug zapper is also working quite well, thank you. Bubba
Buy a Fasco D792. It's a ball-bearing motor, too. Don't forget a new start capacitor as well.
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or... the same A.O. Smith...
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They sell to you... and you'll get great service, too. I've used these folks on big commercial motors for a number of years (and yes... I get a discount!).
I have shopped quite a bit on-line, and cannot find a better deal. Grainger will have the motor tomorrow. Posters here don't seem to have a specific site they recommend, and not being in the trade/ licensed contractor limits my ability to source one cheaper. The OEM replacement at Grainger is $140. Not as many 1/4 horse, 830 rpm bottom shaft, 48Y frame motors as you might expect. Lots of 1050 rpm and 1/3 horse. Don't want to mix apples and oranges, also want a ball bearing motor instead of a cheap sleeve bearing job. My buddy may be able to get it a bit cheaper but by the time I hassle him, drive over there across town 35 miles, etc its about not worth it and I'd be hassling him, plus not sure he can easily do this either. I tried searching on hvac condenser motors and the on-line sites most of them wanted even more for the part - if they even had something close. My time is worth something too, so I'm throwing in the towel, plus I don't have to wait for mail over the weekend. My wife will also be off my ass too once its fixed, and can you really put a price on that ?? (LOL)
FWIW, in hostile environments (wet, hot, dusty) some sleeve bearing motors will hold up longer than ball bearing types. And they usually run more quietly and smoothly. Even sealed bearings will eventually get crap past their lip seals.
If you hadn't been such a cheap SOB, you would have had it fixed when the tech was there... no fuss, no muss. Now that you been hot for a freakin week, and the wife is on your ass, your still too cheap to drive across town to get a motor, yet your still screwing around on the internet, and still hot. Your a real piece of work.
serviceman did not have motor and would take 24 hours, and a $80 "delivery charge" for him to get it, then he had to schedule time to install it. No big deal, the 2nd floor unit is keeping the house fairly cool in meantime, I was exaggerating about the wife for entertainnment purposes.
Thanks for the motor link RE: FASCO - looks interesting.
Lets see.... How many hours did the motor on your bandsaw operate before failing? Probably less than 100 total. How many hours does the motor in your AC run between failures? Well, since you say you use the AC year round, I would guess (on average) 9 (hours a day) * 365 = 3285 (hours a year) * 9 (years since you got it) = 29565 (running hours) So.... $500 installed /
29565 (hours of nice cool air) = $.016 per hour. Compare this with your bandsaw motor.... ~$1.00 per hour of use. I'm pretty certain that you weren't as miserable while the bandsaw was proken as you are sitting there in the nice Houston, TX heat with no AC.
Lets see... that was about $.01 per hour of NICE COOL AIR based on the above calcs.
And, you think you have a valid insurance policy on that Fixer-Upper house - Oh yeah, never mind... "but that's another story"
Are you sure it's the condenser motor that's bad?
Sure, if it's the correct motor. If you want cheep, why not get a real Amana motor.... 250141875975. It comes from New Orleans, so it's probably water cooled.
Remember, according to "what people tell you", yours is nearly at end-of-life.
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