Bob mentioned reversing a motors direction might be possible, any idea how that one is done? thanks, Jake
Can you tell me what it looks like? A picture would be best if you can do that.
Bob, I don’t have a camera with me here, but it’s just a small motor with a shaft out one side, a black and white wire sticking out. It might have been sold by Cabela’s years ago as a lure dryer. Jake
Does it look anything like a locomotive “can” motor? Does its shaft turn fast or slow? Does it turn any faster if you increase the voltage; or does it run pretty much at the same speed if it runs at all?
It runs about the same speed regardless of the voltage. I’d say the thing is some kind of craft motor. Jake. If I can put this together I might use a locomotive motor and simply mount it on to the car behind th dump car and execute this thing with some kind of pulley. Jake
How fast?
Slow enough to raise one end of the dump bed without giving me problems to shut it off and then unwind the string. I have not tried to do a RPM on this little motor. I’m trying to think of speed in relationship to something on a train set we’d both know. Jake
I’m thinking you might have a synchronous gearmoter there, which would be almost impossible to reverse, I’m afraid.
If it were really slow, you could put a crank on the shaft and move the bed with a string attached to the crank. The bed would just go up and down until you stopped it where you wanted it. But, if you’re using it now by winding a string around its shaft, I imagine it is going too fast for the crank idea.