small motor for scratchbuilding or small trackside accessories

[worldrailboy]

finally found a nice source for train-rated motor but had to check in case anyone knew of others online as well?

http://www.nigellawton009.com/6V6mmx10mmMicroMotors.html

[The_Ghan]

Crikey!

 

That's less than a 1/4" diameter !!!

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[cteno4]

how about 4mm x 8mm...   or 3.2mm x 10mm...

 

also lots of small gears

 

http://www.shop.kkpmo.com/index.php/cat/c31_Small-DC-Motors.html/XTCsid/5e5cdf6bbb2564064a50a31e0b81f79d

 

cheers

 

jeff

[keitaro]

the motor from the world kogei are good too

 

example http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10139109

 

the motor itself if you don't want to use the rest is roughly 6 x 8mm handles voltages fine

[worldrailboy]

thanks for these two links, I'll look at them again when I can

 

I could imagine someone who likes to kitbash a lot would maybe try using the 4mm x 8mm motor to repower that pocket line steam locomotive so it finally wouldn't have to be stuck with a coach car all the times :)

(might be sensitive for very clean tracks for its quite light with nowwhere to add usual weight pieces inside tho?)

[jappomania]

if you have friend with PC or mobile phone store a good source for free motor are

broken CD-DVD rom player (carrige motor), vibracall motors inside old mobile phone

voltage between 4,5V and 12V, you need to control it but for 0,0$ if you burn something...

 

ciao

Massimo

[Bernard]

Nice topic.....I think a lot of us are always in the search for small motors. I usually look for old portable cassette players (Walkmans) and take the motors out.

[worldrailboy]

I was actually thinking of these little motors more for certain removeable trackside buildings (meaning the usual under-board motors wouldn't be so suitable)

 

check my layout thread at http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,6076.0.html to see one use I might think about trying with these mini motors

[jappomania]

and don't forget this one

http://www.gizmoszone.com/shopping/agora.cgi?product=Gearmotor;ppinc=1g

if you need really slow speed

 

(also you can find one of this motor type inside "spinlash"...)

 

ciao

Massimo

[cteno4]

Massimo,

 

sweet, nicely geared down tiny motors, ive got some ideas for those!

 

thanks

 

jeff

[jappomania]

Massimo,

 

sweet, nicely geared down tiny motors, ive got some ideas for those!

 

thanks

 

jeff

 

...... monorail..... 

[keitaro]

I already got a motor in a monorail.

 

trying to work out best way to power them.

 

Turns out mounting rail to the plastic rail is difficult...

 

Those motors are great for side mounting.

 

hand drill a small hole place the motor through and a small wheel borh sides.

 

Alternatively get working powered trucks and mount rail on the track which is incredibly hard.

[worldrailboy]

keitaro why don't you look at a few things on http://schucodisneylandmonorail.com/ (facts, photos of the shell opened up to show the motor drive, etc) and see if it'll give you any better insight?

[keitaro]

i have seen that. Issue is thats too large for the greenmax monorail kit which allows roughly 10mm inside it.

 

my main issue is however getting power to the unit as there is little room for batteries.

 

I have another idea but i have not had much time of late to do anything with it.

 

i've set aside this project till i can get some more time prob june this year. my wife is going over seas 7 weeks before me to japan.

 

7 weeks ought to be enough time to set something up.