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Here's a Jandus C frame I've almost completed. Just waiting on wire and plug to assemble, and an itty bitty GE lil' ripper. Cute, eh? Cheers, Bill

My preference would be to keep that unusual little wooden propellor. I find it amusing that someone used that almost a century ago and its still attached. And in keeping with a toy or educational motor with a fan blade , here are 3 original pics from at 19teens -20’s brochure titled “Fun With Your Motor” by AC Gilbert.

Arrived safe & sound!! Test Run - - - Oil cups were full of dry grease of course, fan has original finish & cord (Mauve/Purple matches head cord) Brass has original Lacquer.

I love citristrip, it’s about the only thing I can get away with using indoors!

I use paint stripper like Zip Strip to remove the old lacquer. Then I wear mask and gloves and with good ventilation hand clean with toilet bowl cleaner and 0000 steel wool in the kitchen sink until it's smooth, clean and pink. Then polish and buff on the wheel and get the nooks and crannies by hand with Mothers. It sucks at every step.

Pulling the stators on these is interesting to say the least. They don't just slide out I assure you. I drilled the front two stator screw holes of the front housing slightly wider with a 11/64" drill bit and drove the stator out with a same diameter drift punch. The vice jaws supported the housing lips as I drove it out. The risk factor is the brass stator screw holders that get damaged/break off and need to be replaced. Not a major issue.

BTW........the bearing holders on this example are factory cast brass.

I brush on citristrip and leave it for an hour or so then use steel wool and toilet cleaner.

Nice finds and acquisitions! I don’t know their origin, but may I hazard a guess ? They could be pre-WW2 German, but Germans had a tendency to proudly label, number, and trademark their motors. Could even be Polish, Czech, or obscure USA “student motors”. That crude but industrial/functional styling is oft used as instructional motors in early to mid 20th century classrooms ; or electrical correspondence schools. When I find one like that , I first test run on low volt DC and simply see if it runs. If not , I try and VOM meter the connections and LIGHTLY clean contacts. I prefer to retain much of the original build parts, windings, and colors as practicable (because that’s the way someone originally built it). Series wound, shunt wound, compound wound can get fascinating. When I was a kid , brand’s like REMCO and Aristocraft etc from the 1940’s to 1970’s had kits where kids, students, and vocational classes could construct, wind, and run small motors. Welch Scientific and Cenco had a few nicer models. Gilbert even had an early 1900’s kit version of their battery DC motors that could be assembled and of course they showed putting a fan blade on it (the fan could be used to push air and “fly” a tethered paper airplane for impressive effects). Nowadays almost all build-it-yourself educational kits are from PRC China . Once they run, you gotta make it do some kind if work, fan blade shows and feels like its complete. Comic book ads in the 1950’s had much enticements for kids to power-up and learn electro-motive forces.

Sculpted some JB Weld around the finial to try and replace what had been ground down to braze it into the iron pipe. Should look even better once it's cured and sanded.