Motor info Builders help needed

[GuruJeph]

can anyone give me some insight into what I would be looking for in motor specs if I wanted to build a rotary for myself? figure someone on here would know more about the relation to the motor and tattooing then someone at a hobby store or radioshack. thanks

[GuruJeph]

no love?

[Administrator]

You may not get the answer you are looking for like this. There are bits and pieces posted on the forum in conversations if you find them. There are about a half dozen companies that make motors that many of the builders on this site use. The same companies make probably hundreds of different models and many of the builders on here would probably prefer to keep this info proprietary since some have spent a lot of money doing their own research and development into what motor will work best with the drive system they developed for their machine.

I can tell you that there are builders out there that may sell you a motor that they use since they are usually sold as past warranty replacement parts. However depending on the drive system you want to use it may not always work as well as you want it to as not all motors are suited to all drive systems.

Best of luck.

[OwlsDen]

http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/...otorSpecs.jpgI just posted this elsewhere, a builder posted this as an option for rebuilding the swash copy

[tattooedpirate2]

Radio Shack has a motor that is perfect. I use it in my Cutlass and Blunderbuss machines. Its the 9-18 volt hobby motor part number 2730256.

[jesoner79]

lol pirate u cant be serious

[Sage Oz]

I'm pretty sure he is, my blunderbuss had a big hobby can motor. It worked pretty smooth and had a lotta torque, though on the heavy side.

[OwlsDen]

But the rest of his machines use faulhaber motors from Germany. They are awesome.

[Sage Oz]

Agreed Faulbauers are excellent motors, on par with Maxon

[Amoebadesigns]

I played with one of the Radio Shack motors he mentioned and it was big but it does run quite well