Man V Machine Motor Rewinds It seems on a few of Matts LinkedIn posts that he inadvertently stoked the fires of the repair v replace argument for electric motors. In this post he aims to show his respect for the skilled craftsmen who, day-in day-out, rewind motors. “Now just to show and I guess a few of you cannot un-see …

The picture at the top of this post is a repaired ABB electric motor just about to leave our UK workshop. It’s not a big motor and there’ll be many people saying things like ‘it’s not worth repairing’,  ‘you’ll be better off buying new’, ‘A repair isn’t as good as a new motor’ and “you’ll lose efficiency if you repair it’. Well …