Canady clean out

[TWISTEDWILLOW]

So I decided today that I was going to do a heavy oil on all my blowers especially the new to me ones that I haven’t got around to messing with yet, 

and when I got to this little candy Otto and started filling her up while turning it over I noticed straight rust pouring out after a minute, 

I decided I’d take a look in the gear box and….. decided it needed cleaned and flushed out, 

there was lord knows how many years of dirt, rust, and ancient grease, (not to be confused with Ancient Greece) beat you to it Frosty!  lol, 

Anyways the gears had hard packed rust an dirt between the teeth so it was a pretty tedious job, I soaked and used a wire brush to no avail so I ended up using a small flathead to bust the junk out from the teeth, 

i dugout and chipped out the inside of the gear box and then finally flushed everything out, I reassembled it an put grease in the bottom, to help seal up an hold oil, 

One thing I found interesting about this blower is it has nine oil holes!

Four on each side of the gear box for both ends of the four shafts and then another on top! 
 

anyways she’s turns smoother now and turns three times after letting go of the handle, 

only one thing is I think I may have put a little to much grease in it because after turning it awhile some grease started coming back out of the bottom oil holes, 

another odd thing about this blower is it’s really short and kinda small, not as small as my tiny Buffalo but it’s almost like it was designed for a child? 
 

I was thinking about building another pancake forge to hook up to it so it can go back into action agin

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[George N. M.]

TW, Nice job on the Canady-Otto.  I have always thought that the first name is pronounced something close to Kennedy but with a short first A.

I'm always pleasantly surprised at how well old equipment like this cleans up and how well it works after restoration.  The old grease and oil inside the sealed gear box seems to act as a preservative and once it is removed the machinery is as good as new.  A lot of these are a century or more old and I suspect that they my be working well for at least another century.

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

[Frosty]

I doubt it ever had grease in it, oil dries and oxidizes into a greasy sludge before it turns into an asphalt like solid. Mine loves life with a couple few drops of bar oil in the oil holes. My main machinery oil in the shop is a gallon jug of chainsaw bar oil with about 1/4+ cup of Duralube. It sticks to the gears but splashes enough to get o everything in the gearbox.

That's just me though, feel free to visit grease, ancient is just down the road a few decades. 

Frosty The Lucky.

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

The only thing harder to wash off your hands is tractor grease/oil. Looks like you have done a good job cleaning it up. When I saw the title I thought you had a cotton candy machine to restore darn.

[TWISTEDWILLOW]

George thank you! I plan to fix up everything I find and keep it in good shape so hopefully it will serve everyone after me more another century, 

Frosty, your prolly right about it not being grease, the bar oil idea I really like, I think I may start trying it out too, ive been oiling my blowers with sae 30, but I keep several gallons of bar oil on hand in the shop so it won’t be a big deal to switch over, thanks for the idea! 

i visit grease on a daily basis but I’m still a ways out from finding ancient lol, 

irondragon, thank you!
 ive never worked on a cotton candy machine but I have repaired some gear boxes on old ice cream machines for some of my customers lol

[KMADDOX]

Nice clean up on that one TW! Ready for action now. 

[TWISTEDWILLOW]

Thanks longbowhunter! I’ll make sure to post pictures of the next forge build that I’m gonna hook up to this blower!