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From: David Simmons devs@idirect.com
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:50:39 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: RM-1 motors


Kyle has been using these motors for a while now, they are cheap,
effective and large enough for him to handle. The weigh is a problem at
times but with the flat sides they are very easy to epoxy to perf. board
etc.

Regards,
Dave

BUDSCOTT@aol.com wrote:
>
> I just recently order from solarbotics, some nice cheap DC motors
>
> -http://www.solarbotics.com/products1.shtml#p-rm1
>
> Thought i'd comment, these motors are actually pretty nice to use. I think
> that people often underestimate anything that isn't a pager motor or a
> cassette motor, i recently scavanged the exact same motor out of a CD-ROM
> drive, it, however didn't have the nice little gear on the shaft, which
> brings me to my next point. If you build a gearbox out of a kitchen timer or
> oven timer the motors have nice mounting holes and the gear meshes in quite
> nicely! just thought i'd comment on a good decision on solarbotic's behalf.
>
> -Spencer
>
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