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Just for 'messng about' a used automobile starter motor is easy to power (battery & switch) and very cheap and quite powerful. Probably the next cheapest would be r/c motors I also like the look of eBay Chinese bicycle hub dc motors. but four would cost more than a (very) used automobile! I have five (one spare) 24V dc motors from German heavy duty printers that I kept for just such a project, I still have them 20 years later! You can have them for free but the postage would be horrific!
but like all hobby stuff, it would be cheaper to buy. e.g. an old motorcycle and de-construct it.
P.S. used car batteries are rarely of any use for high power that's why they're replaced.
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Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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... Just, to be clear, whenever I post something on the "sales and trade" section, I'm usually looking to trade something for one... I appreciate the advice, but, I live in a Suburban area, and don't have access to broken down forklifts. Or, money, to buy anything, which is why i'm always up for trades. Otherwise, I would've gotten one from ebay! 17, without a job, yeah...
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Wheelchair motors? I have quite a few pairs of them. I had an idea for an electric vehicle using a few AGM SLAs, but I scrapped the idea when the campus kind of treats that sort of thing as a full vehicle.
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A good sized motor
