Restoring old shop equipment

[Lew Hodgett]

Probably less expensive to buy a new one if it is a fractional HP.

Lew

[Pilgrim]

Now is the time to learn! If you are going to buy a new motor, why not try to refurbish the old one? You might learn something. If you have to buy a new one there is nothing lost if you were going to buy a new one in the first place.

Chuck P.

[Keith Nuttle]

Yes! It is an easy task to carefully take a motor apart and clean the sawdust and wood chips from the area of the electrical connections. In some motors this can be done by remove a cover.

If you do take it to a shop, comparison shop. I found the small independent shops were more reasonable and less strict in their pricing structure.

At one point I thought my table saw motor had died, but when I took it to a small independent shop the guy basically blew it out and charged me a couple of dollars to take it apart and clean it. (Wood chips had gotten into the electrical contacts and would not allow them to close.)

[Larry Blanchard]

Depends on its age. The older the better :-). I've got a 1940s vintage

1hp motor that weights a ton. That thing has torque you wouldn't believe. I've been warned to never, never get rid of it.

[-MIKE-]

Just so you know, I did a comparison of my own, last night, between WD-40 and Boeshield Rust Free rust remover.

There is simply no comparison. I was pretty amazed at the Boeshield. I had some spots of surface rust to remove. WD-40 kind of sits on top of it and doesn't really do much but act as a lube and solvent while you scrub. I don't see it doing much beyond acting as a solvent to help the rust soak up into a towel.

I sprayed the Boeshield on and the rust sort of vanished and turned a different color. It lifted off the surface before I could even reach for the scrubbing pad.

I'm going to do some removal on another tool that has a considerable about of rust on it. I'll report on that later.

Again, I'm not trying to be confrontational. But if you ever need to remove a considerable amount of rust, this Boeshield stuff is worth it.