OTHER SOURCES OF DC MOTORS AND OTHER
CHOICESWe promised readily available material for this project and
thankfully there are many choices available to you for finding
a DC motor.
You can find a DC motor anywhere for free, just for asking.
Do you have a friend who likes working on cars? Or just ask
at your local auto parts store. Our good friend, Larry Brown,
who owns the auto parts plus outlet in our area, does this for
us.
We are not very good at auto mechanics, but I can fix it if I
know what to do. He just has a look and tells us what we
need. He orders the parts and I do the work of fixing. It
works great. Larry is the one who gave me all of these great
ideas for free DC motors we could use.
He told us to go to the scrap metal places and ask
around. Most manufacturing companies regularly
scrap old forklifts etc (remember the forklift
batteries) and look there.
That’s what we did and found a great source of DC motors, in
fact we even eliminated the scrap metal dealer from the
equation and started looking at our local industrial area. Just
ask and you will find what you are looking for.