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Hack vs Husted

A look at Matt Millirons MTC-4001 Prestolite drive motor. This is what I found, and what was done to address it.

Date: 09/09/2007 Owner: Jim Husted Size: 30 items
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What a shame, those coils looked brand new before getting hosed with red 8^(

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1704
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There was some battery acid corrosion between the housing steel and the coils. Guess the guy missed that (by not removing the coils).

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1388
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I went to spread the coils a bit (for an inside picture) and the two halves broke. You can see that the connection was barely made and was cold soldered (metal not heated enough when done) to boot

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1103
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Here's the other lead. As you can see, there must have been a pretty good gap being the paint has penitrated so well. This had been working for a long time, but was a breakdown waiting to happen, so I'm glad it happened here at the shop and not with Mat

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 976
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Here's another example of how solid color insulation hides ugly.

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1089
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A little closer look at it.

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1019
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Now is this how you'd want your motor to be rebuilt? Just sick!

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1109
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Here's the housing after we got rid of all that nasty.

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 980
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Here's a little bugger of acid that I found hiding in the CE plate

Date: 12/31/1969 Owner: Jim Husted Views: 1172
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