keep the nut on the e shaft as much as possible. ie take it off remove flywheel, put it back.



you have no idea how much it sucks to pull apart a motor you just built because the threads got damaged, put the nut on and it will protect the threads

 

i always did that, but only cause im so damn good at losing things...

 

did we find this out the hard way recently?

 

I always wrap the threads of the E-shaft with a crapton of electrical tape.

 

I usually put nuts, bolts back if they can be. If not bag and tag them with threads wrap cloth or something arount them.

 

http://www.turdbirdexpress.com/crapton.html

 

nope, this is one of the few things ive never done. mah buddy ralph told me about it when i started building motors

 

Better advice, once you remove the e-shaft from the motor, place it back into the flywheel and put the nut on, this will protect the e-shaft from rolling around and gettign scratched until you are ready to put the motor back together.

 

Bingo -- put some e-tape around it. Also, wrap the shaft up in a bunch of shop cloth rags (clean) and get it out of sight in a safe place.



B

 

Get a dedicated "clean table"?

If the rebuild is going to take a while (i.e. not immediately after tear-down), we usually wrap the e-shafts with a rag or cloth.

Any serious down-time will cause those damn things to rust like a ****, so we shoot them down with oil.





-Ted