Victor II Speed Control Issue

[pellicano1]

It is good to clean it, but the seizure could happen due to misadjustments. These thick teeth gears must be well aligned and with minimum end play. You should also check the governor brass bearings, they tend to wear out, and this makes the axis to be misaligned and then the motor jams. These bearings must have no lateral play (perpendicular to the axis) and only a bit of end play parallel to the axis. The bull gear meshing with the spindle must also be revised and adjusted. The spring axis where the bull gear is rotating must have but a little end play. These motors used to have some washers in the spring arbor to adjust that end play. If the bull gear moves laterally and doesn't mesh perfectly with the worm in the spindle can also cause motor jamming. Equally, a spindle bearing wearing, mostly at the upper motor plate bearing (a simple hole) can cause the spindle to have some lateral (perpendicular) play, and this causes misalignment between the spindle worm gear and the bull gear, another cause of jamming or motor running unstead
y.

What I meant was the governor itself was spinning fine. The brass disc was not moving on the governor shaft itself. It was seized up. I got it free and used a fine sandpaper on the shaft and inside the fitting, oiled it, and reassembled the governor springs and weights. Works great now. Thanks!

[Inigo]

Nice! Enjoy it!