Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #09586
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Ben Hitchcock" beh01@uow.edu.au
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:23:31 +1100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Pager motor eccentric
>From: Gary Neff
> What's the best way to remove the eccentric from the shaft of a pager motor?
What I do is:
Get some blu-tack (stuff you put posters on walls with), and put it in a big
lump over the end of the weight. Put another lump on the end of the motor
that doesn't have a shaft sticking out.
Get a dressmakers pin and cut it off to about half its original length, and
throw away the pointy end.
Stick the half-pin into the blu-tack on the weight end so that it rests
inside the hole that's in the weight - as in, it's in line with the motor
shaft.
Grab the weight with a pair of pliers, and hit the end of the pin with a
hammer. The motor should fall to the bench.
Now remove the blu-tack from both the weight end and the butt end, retrieve
the little white stopper that used to be on the butt end of the motor, and
stick it back where it belongs.
> I'm new at this, and I can see myself standing there with the shaft in one
> hand, and the case in the other.
Yep, I did that to two motors before I figured out the pliers method. At
least now I know what's inside a pager motor :-)
Hope this helps,
Ben
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