Thanks Cor. It might help my cause to know what forklift might have commonly used that old GE motor. Have any of you seen that old "Jet" motor on a forklift out in the wild? No amount of googling turns up anything by the motor model # or anything.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Cor van de Water <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Husted? > Or scout local "Craigslist" for scrap forklifts? > Or visit a forklift maintenance place to see if > they have a used motor for sale? > Possibly EV tradin Post? > > Cor van de Water > Chief Scientist > Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com > Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info > Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of J Bills > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 3:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] Old GE 9" motor source ideas? > > Hi all - in the midst of an Electravan reboot project and have found out > that the armature is fried on the current motor. Had hoped it was just > a > brush replacement but oh wow, you should have seen the windings and junk > falling out from the bell housing when we pulled it apart. > > Would ideally like to attempt to source one of these old motors before > looking into a Warp 9 or other modern replacement, since the adapter > plate > and everything is still perfectly usable. And it wasn't a half bad > motor, > when not abused! > > Does anyone have any ideas for where one of these old beasts might be > sitting around? Or contacts that might know? > > It's model no 5BT1346B38 > > apparently GE donated quite a few to schools and universities for > research > projects, in addition to it's duty as a forklift motor or whatever it > was. > > Thanks for any tips. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130305/7393 > 62c5/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130306/47576640/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
