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isaiah

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Posted: 02:35am 08 May 2011

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Hi All,
I went to a local tractor and gas engine show swap meet and a old Airline 6 volt Deluxe Air Charger followed me home.
The generator seems to work and part of the slip rings are there and the tail is complete.
The blade and governor are missing so we will be looking for these parts to try and restore it.
Dose any one have information on the parts needed ?
This is what it should look like when restored
http://www.wincharger.com/gallery/restored/Image004-f.jpg
Isaiah

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Posted: 05:37am 08 May 2011

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isaiah

A friend had one of these back in about 1975 in Huntington Beach, CA. His blade was made from a plank of wood and the "governor" from memory was nothing more than two scoops, each attached to a long spring @ center. As the thing spun up, the centrifugal force created by the weight of the spinning scoops forced them out into the wind and the thing slowed down; air brakes, if you will.

I remember his made a lot of noise when it spun up; kinda scarey really. From memory, again, I think the blade was on the order of 7 or 8 feet in diameter.

Because of where it was mounted, on his flat roof and at the top of a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, it was subject to VERY high gusting winds off the ocean and the thing tore itself apart.

A three-bladed prop would have let it yaw a bit smoother and that's something you might want to try also. The fact that his 2-blade rig didn't like to yaw when the blade was horizontal, along with his over-the-top wind was, I think, a leading factor in its final demise.

. . . . . Mac

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