New Bosch Motors desoldered?

[jzampier]

Our team kinda decided we knew better than
FIRST on this one. We did desoldier the wires
and resolder 10 gauge on there, but the
flexiblity of the brushes and mounting
gave us a lot of trouble with broken solder joints. Final solution was to use 2-56 screws
with some non-insulated 10 gauge crimp terminals ( male ) and literally bolt the connectors together. ( did need to drill out the
holes on the motor terminals ).
As a side note, you have to make sure you
don't bend the motor brush housings, they
held the solder temps fine, but i managed to
break off the brush retaining tab when
rotating the terminal to the correct orientation.
If you ask me these motors have a terrible brush retention mechanism and it should be
fixed. I was temped to electrical tape the heck out of it when i was done... but i was afraid to
kill the air flow over the stator, amongst other things.