[AT] Whoa!!!!!!

Cecil R Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Thu Aug 20 17:14:07 PDT 2015


If it s a Delco Generator, you can take the armature out and put it in 
the field of a 12V Delco generator housing.  Just make sure the length 
of the field is the same as the 6V one.  That way you do not have to 
take the field coils out of the housing.  I have done this a lot of 
times.    Even using a 12V generator on a 6v system to make sure the 
battery stayed hot. The 6V regulator kept the battery at 6V..........

Cecil in OKla




On 8/20/2015 12:37 PM, Carl Gogol wrote:
> If you don't want to cut up your tractors when converting to 12 volts, the generators can be converted to 12 V for about $100 (5-6 year old price)  Less if you do your own work in changing the coils.    Not sure where to buy the coils from, but a generator shop can do it for not much more $ than a gen rebuild.
> Carl
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> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Len Rugen
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:46 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Whoa!!!!!!
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> I converted my "new" H to 12 volt and couldn't find a different place to mount the alternator so I had to cut a hole in the hood and fabricate a "lump".  It's ugly.....  I never could get that tractor to charge on 6 volt, when I first got it, I'd just charge the battery every few uses and it was OK, but it seems like the later 6-volt batteries I get here wouldn't last a year.
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> I've pretty much given up on the "old" H, the one Dad bought in about 1947 as his first and only tractor until about 1968.  I was about 10 then, he noticed that I was driving the tractor pretty good, so he bought another one (WD-45) so "we" could get more work done.
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> Len Rugen
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> rugenl at yahoo.com
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>       On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:24 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   No, I wasn't talking to any of the horses... I opened the little tool box on the Case VAC and it was filled with about a 20 year supply of paper wasps... I didn't know I could still move that quick.
> :-)
> A little wasp & hornet spray took care of them. I was just in that tool box about a month ago.
> Yesterday I was doing some light work on my old Farmall Super M and found a small nest in it. I have not really used it for almost 2 years but I need to use the loader to move some stuff (still trying to get some stuff caught up). On the Super M wasp nest I grabbed a handy can and cleaned all of their little carburetors...
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> I'm trying to decide if I want to rebuild the generator and put on a new regulator and also replace a really tired starter or if I will just give in and convert it to a 12 volt system using a "one wire" conversion alternator. That old starter has a lot of go at 12 volts... One thing about these old Farmalls is that you can't even see the generator / alternator up under the hood like on a lot of tractors where it sticks out the side.
> I used to have a Yanmar 1500 diesel that had a tiny alternator on it that was part of the fan. I wish that somebody would  make a small one wire alternator like that but stand alone that was small (and cheap) for conversions. A maximum output of about 6 amps or even less would be fine for anything I use. These days I start late and stop early and almost never need any lights.
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