[modeleng] Re: Electric Motors

Sounds great as a topic!  However, I think you'd be
better off to scrounge a used DC motor out of a golf
cart or a powered wheel chair.  As to whether or not
an alternator can be converted, I do not know as
"electrics" are beyond my ken.

Al Messer


--- georgecoles <georgecoles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
> Does anyone know if a car alternator can be modified
> to a motor.
> I'm looking for something cheap for a small 10.25
> inch gauge loco (if you can have such a thing), and
> I thought of using an old car dynamo, but
> alternators are the standard fitting these days, so
> easier to get hold of!
> Al,  how about that for a new topic?
> 
> Regards
> George Coles
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