Another hobby development

[Gilberdyke John]

In my father's schooldays (early 1910s) and being a rural school where farmers children worked before schooltime, usually feeding livestock, one of the classmates was often on the receiving end of a stick. His clothes were well covered with ground meal so clouds of dust were raised around him and close neighbours coughed & spluttered until the cloud settled.

A week later and still struggling to do simple things like putting a shirt on because the movements required induce pain in my shoulder. Not where the x-ray or bruising suggests the trauma is located. However paracetamol every 6 hours is containing things if I behave myself and don't exert myself. Couldn't resist looking at the semi-stripped motor in the workshop so persuaded Mrs J to take me to George Lodges with the old bearing I had taken off prior to my fall. The lad behind the counter measured it and said it's a 6204 2Z stock item do you want a pair? Price £71.51 plus vat then said discount 92% so I bought two and came away £13.73 lighter. Thank goodness for discounts.
It'll probably be a few more days before I'm up to fitting the bearings and the end caps go back on the motor.
While I was there I noted they stock a wide range of pulleys and belts so if I have future requirements there's a local stockists.

Feeling somewhat easier in the shoulder today I wandered into the workshop and put the electric motor back together. I realized I should have photographed the wiring in the terminal box but with the aid of my multimeter I sussed out which terminals served the capacitor, centrifugal switch and running windings. On connecting to a supply the motor started and ran smoothly & quietly with its new bearings. it's a heavy old lump so I'll wait until my grandson is here again to fit it back onto the machine.