Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!husc6!ncar!bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu!hpoppe
From: hpoppe@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NEEDED: Really small motors
Keywords: I mean, smaller than model racecar motors.  Half that size.
Message-ID: <6439@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 16:18:44 GMT
References: <34616@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu
Distribution: sci
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
Lines: 22

In article <34616@watmath.waterloo.edu> mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (M.W.Tilden, Hardware) writes:
>
>I once saw a solar powered do-dad which fed a motor about the size 
>of a 100uF electrolytic cap (1/2 inch by 3/8th inch).  Does anybody 
>have the address of a company which would stock and sell such motors?
>All the motor manuals I have don't even deal with motors as small as
>those found in electric race cars and I need ones at least half that
>size.  
>

Find a large hobby shop specializing in model trains. Tell them you'd
like to re-motor a Z-scale locomotive. Ask them the name of the company
that makes such motors, or for a distributor. (An outfit like
Northwest Short Lines imports motors for re-motoring purposes; I don't
know if they have a motor as small as you want, however.)

A Z-scale locomotive is about as big as your little finger.

--
Herb Poppe      NCAR                         INTERNET: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu
(303) 497-1296  P.O. Box 3000                   CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET
		Boulder, CO  80307               UUCP: hpoppe@ncar.UUCP