Posted by nuts4first.
Engineer on team #340, GRR - Greater Rochester Robotics, from Churchville-Chili and Nortel Networks.
Posted on 3/22/2000 10:32 PM MST
In Reply to: Where and how do we get spare FP motors? posted by Andy Grady on 3/22/2000 9:38 PM MST:
Andy,
Most likey you can trade them from another team. A lot of teams aren't using them. I saw alot of them in a 'swap box' of parts that some teams contributed to at the NASA KSC Regional. Perhaps, other Regionals or the Nationals will have such a box at the Small Parts booth.
Of course you can always hand over the cash at you local Power Wheels service center
(see
http://www.powerwheels.com/service/centers/ for the location nearest you!).
I found that my service center would only sell me the entire assembly, I had to place an order to get just the motors (It took about a week)
You will need P/N 7440-0640 (~$15.00) for the motor (which is a Mabuchi RS-550PF-6534)
or P/N 74460-9519 (~30.00) for one gearbox assembly with motor.
Also, see this previous posting by JoeJohnson, he has some good advise on this one.....
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/wwwboard/messages/1869.html
Good Luck,
Nuts4FIRST
Gee, all this great stuff should be in a database somewhere....hum :=)