On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:18:41 -0500, Ignoramus21207
wrote:

I have this electric powered pressure washer that I want to fix. At
this time, it appears (from talking to the tech of the airport that
got rid of it) that the motor has an internal short. I would want to
confirm this first, but let's assume for a moment that this is the
case. The two obvious alternatives are buying a new motor or
rewinding.

The motor is "6 HP" (sic), 3450 RPM, 182T frame, single phase motor,
23 amps IIRC.

The best local quote that I got for rewinding this motor is $339. Is
this in a reasonable ballpark or should I look harder?


That sounds about right. Rewinding is usually only economical for
large or special expensive motors. I gave away a 3HP Baldor buffer
with cooked motor a while back. I think the guy I gave to paid around
$300 to have it rewound. Around the same time the place that did the
work went thru the 5HP DC motor from my (now ex) Monarch EE. They
disassembled it, dipped and baked the windings, replaced the brushes
and bearings and load tested for $125, which seems cheap comapared to
the rewind.

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Ned Simmons