Automobile heater motors/wiper motors on boat

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Posted by Malcolm Frary on 07/10/2017 10:06:59:

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At one time, it was possible to browse a scrapyard and select the goodies you wanted – nowadays, you need to know the make and model and year, if not the actual registration of the car you intend it for. Using a motor for any other purpose is a foreign concept, for the sellers, things like "technical specifications" are equally foreign. …….

At one time it was possible to obtain car parts from a breakers, or an abandoned car, for pence. And there were very few other places to buy a large purpose-built model motor – the few that were available like the big Taycols, were phenomenally expensive. That was when the advice to use a car heater motor, or a military surplus motor was offered.

Nowadays car breakers will assume that you are using the blower motor to replace a failed one in a car, and will charge a good fraction of a new item price, military surplus is hard to come by, and large model motors, which are designed for modelling purposes, are much more readily available. So the advice changes…

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I would go with DM`s suggestion. You know where you are with these.

Ashley

[Gary MullensParticipant @garymullens12074]

Would these be good candidates for a motor?

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/TEM937201?ref=MTI=

 

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/TEM937153?ref=MTE=

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/BK_6551037?ref=MTA=

 

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/BK_6551867?ref=Nw==

 

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/BK_6552021?ref=Ng==

 

https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/TEM937150?ref=Mg==

These are a few I have found.

Thank you

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Gary

I think we've all assumed that you are UK-based, as most of the members of this forum are. I looked at the motor in the first link and thought that the cost of shipping two of them to the UK would be prohibitive, but then it occurred to me that you might be in the US. My reaction to that motor is that I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work but it's unlikely that many folk reading this – if any – will have first-hand experience of using one.

Dave M

I've just read a suspiciously similar posting on The Other Forum from 'GMan' in East Central Ohio. I guess that confirms what I said above.
DM

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 08/10/2017 08:59:29

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Two comments – one of those motors is a 24v motor, and there is no indication of motor power, weight or speed on any of the specifications. Without these it is hard to offer more than generalities.

[Gary MullensParticipant @garymullens12074]

Yep, I'm in the U.S. and I do have another thread in the mayhem forum as well. I'm trying to reach everyone in the masses of this hobby. Very knowledgeable individuals, with different ways of doing things.

[Malcolm FraryParticipant @malcolmfrary95515]

Posted by Gary Mullens on 08/10/2017 19:27:38:

Yep, I'm in the U.S. and I do have another thread in the mayhem forum as well. I'm trying to reach everyone in the masses of this hobby. Very knowledgeable individuals, with different ways of doing things.

If you haven't already, a post on RCGroups might turn up somebody with more US experience.

[Gary MullensParticipant @garymullens12074]

Anyone else have information they would like to share?

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