UnderoosAg said:
Fan motors are gonna be one of the supply houses off Alamo Downs, but they get ****ty on what they will sell to whom.
Yeah,
A/C stuff is one of the last industrial lines where the parts houses still 'protect' their regular contractor customers at the expense of alienating the do-it-yourself or non A/C contractor crowd.
Years ago, electrical and plumbing supply houses were just as bad. If the counter 'boys' didn't recognize you, good luck getting waited on and being treated respectfully.
The advent of the big box stores and the ability of anyone to purchase parts off the internet broke down most of those walls, though.
I ran an industrial plant for over 30 years, and it used to infuriate me when my guys needed an A/C or refrigeration part to repair a piece of manufacturing equipment and those A/C houses wouldn't deal with us. Their attitude was 'call a serviceperson', even though my guys knew a helluva lot more than most service 'techs' did.
I finally reached a truce with one (and only one) of the places in town by setting up a special 'industrial user' account with them, and then they would grudgingly sell to me.
Still, it didn't always go smoothly. One day we had something break and I asked my wife (who was on the side of town where the parts house was) to swing by to pick up a part and hot shot it over to me.
When she brought the part to me, she said "I'm never going back to that place. Those guys are a&&holes!"
I still laugh about it.
Anyway, about that motor -- write the number down off the nameplate and either get it from Grainger (not cheap), or buy if off the internet and get quick delivery.