oOple's Vintage Motor Library; The Brushed Era
 

Well we can all agree that today all brushed motors are now a thing of the past so I guess it seemed logical to create this thread in the vintage forum.
The idea is to create a library of ALL brushed motors with specs, pictures, tales, fails & small scale fires, racing history, etc... I bet there are some people here who would like to share a thing or two. So let us know which was you personal favorite, with what motor you beat who, infamous motors, special windings, secret brush cuts, tips, etc...

Right of the bat I'll start by telling a short tale about Venom's Fireball motors... you can guess right away what happened... the name saids it all. Right in the middle of a heat a brand new Fireball 15t motor literally catched fire!!! What a piece of krap! :thumbdown: At least it gave the track a bit of drama LOL

One of my personal favorites, and not really that old, is Reedy's Challenger 19Turn motor... excellent duration and plenty of power :thumbsup:

PS: Those Reedy's 19T Challenger motors are capable of 47,000 rpms @ 7.2V with some brush tunning, timming and 12.8 amp draw, bit high but with an estimated 76% efficiency. Not bad for a 19T, those are really good motors.

You mean stuff like this right? :wub

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/kyosho_lemans_01.jpg

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/kyosho_lemans_02.jpg

And some more thanks to OptimaHouse who scanned this I believe :)

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/kyosho_lemans_03.jpg


http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/kyosho_lemans_04.jpg



http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/kyosho_lemans_05.jpg

HPI Uno.

Team Tanaplan.

Trinity Monster Horsepower 85 Worlds
1x14 44.000rpm I believe

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/trinit...sepower_85.jpg

Trinity Monster Horsepower 85-87 Worlds

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/trinit...power_8587.jpg

Exactly that! :thumbsup:

It's the first time I ever saw those Kyosho's REV 360 motors, what was their application?

NeilD, I am intrigued, what is the history & specs about the HPI UNO motors? I know that they where on Massami's Schuey's but that's about it. Where they were that good?

Not long ago I built this guy as an experiment, just for laughs. Not exactly a bomb shell but it performed really good. I called it; "The 15x8 Gardy's Special". 32,552 rpms @ 7.2V with 5.07 amp / 35 watts draw, ball bearings, with an estimated efficiency of 76%. Dont remember the wire gage though.

The other guy was a Thunder Tiger 550 based motor (still labeled as a 19T) which I made it a 12x1 and got from it 33,089rpms @ 7.4V(simulated Lipo) with 5.3 amp draw, no bb's. Pretty good rmps for a no bb and 550 rotor motor.

Here is a picture of my old motor lab...:wub

Do you mean the REV 300T and REV 300S?

Exactly those.
I always wondered, why Kyosho never went serious with the Le Mans motors, I mean 12turns and things like that. Such a pretty motor that only seemed to perform in the shelf...

This is what I can read from the small text:

REV 300T
Ideal for: High torque direct loads, such as boats and gliders.

REV 300S
Ideal for: High torque loads through reduction gear box, such as EP Concept (helicopter)

Remember using these?

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ps80fb9f6c.jpg

I actually had a play with these the other day :lol:

Paul.

We actually used one of those for fun at VONats 2013 in september. Ran a Tamiya Sport Tuned on it :lol:

Do you have the part that should be muonted in the motor? That part is often gone when people sell those...

Yeah, I have a couple of them. If you look on the left hand dresser there one of them clamped onto one of the croc clips so I don't lose it.

I don't know too much about their motors but I did find some information on their early history:

Hobby Products International

The company, originally an export firm, was founded in 1986 by Tatsuro Watanabe and a partner, each with a total investment of US$100 each. Their original office in Costa Mesa, California measured only 300 square feet (28 m2). A line of electric R/C motors called the Uno series were among the first products offered by HPI. Buoyed by the success of the Uno, HPI opened a small office in Japan that same year.
1987 would see world champion driver Masami Hirosaka use an Uno in his first IFMAR World Championship win in England.
By 1988, the burgeoning RC aftermarket proved to be a boon to HPI USA as they started exporting popular American-made R/C products to Japan, including such familiar brands as MIP, Peak Performance and Paragon.

I'll try and find specs for the motor.

Information on the HPI Uno is proving difficult to find but I stumbled across the first motor and ESC from LRP.

The first motor.

Wow thank's for the info.
Nice motor. Nothing beats the looks of a CNC'd enbell and front plate of earlier motors!

This thread makes me feel like a kid again! :thumbsup:

It makes me want an LRP Blue SE!

Reedy Mr. L's 14 Turn Double 4WD Offroad :)

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/reedy_ultra_mr_l.jpg

Reedy Modified 1/12 1978/1979/1980 R.O.A.R Winner

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/reedy_modified_12e.jpg

I think a couple of these are SE's

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ps2f519a09.jpg

The Trinity here is my favourite motor, alloy endbell the lot. The AYK is cool too.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...n/bf39dafa.jpg

The Trinity now lives in the back of my Topcat.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...psfc584ffc.jpg

Paul.

This is cool! Like a toothbrush commercial :)

http://joppis.dyndns.org/vintage_ads/029.jpg

Trinity SpeedWorks 27T Joel "Magic" Johnson

http://joppis.dyndns.org/misc/trinit..._works_27t.jpg

I have one of those got it with an complete rc10 team car ,don
Know the winds though

Mvh isobarik

I still got my lathe, my Shinwa Motor Dresser went up in smoke a while ago :( ......

Still got a box full of motors and brushes (the brushes come in handy rebuilding electric window motors to...)

Remember space age technology god they where crap:thumbsup: trinity they where shocking lrp where ok reedy spot on mind you most fell out of European champions box:drool::lol:

Yup, the two at the top right of the photo, I think. Nice to see you have the boxes for them. Brings back some great memories. Was the Pink the faster motor? I'm sure I had one but the Blue was soon back in my ProCat.

Corally my favourite, Reedy Mr M which i used to beat the Master at the worlds warm ups, Fabiix 10 single and Shark Attack were motors I had to use fro my sponsers. Shark Attack was a very torquey motor. Corally 10d was my best motor, car was ballistic with it in. Still cant find one to save my life but Reedy Mr A, Mr X and Mr T brand new in packet were simple to find.

Ok, who remembers these bad boys?

Hahaha, I think I still have some brown dots new in bags somewhere!
If I get 5, I'll trawl through my brushed collection up the the parents cellar.

What are the chances that either of those MG stock motors are ACTUALLY 27 turns :woot:

Non went to a stock rc meeting got battered in a straight line by one of these so called mg stocks what I didn't tell em I had a 14double in my car work it out:thumbsup: :lol:

Blimey, well if you do find one and fancy selling it, give me a shout, I'll definitely buy it off you Griff.

Really Bert? (& K Rob) you really think they weren't 27t? I remember there were a lot of pretty quick 27t motors back then. The Revolution stock, Scorcher, and someone lent me a Parma Cyclone stock once for my Maxima, god it was quick.

It depends if you knew people who wound motors there, lots did!!
You would never get faster than an mg 27 single. Lol

Hmmm...here are some of the nicest brushed pieces I have

This one is in a lazer zx-rr

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...psa4004236.jpg

A few from my collection

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1ed86b32.jpg

The checkpoint platinum is one of my favorite motors ever..

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4db63974.jpg

This is a HPI UNO gt-s 23 t. A jap stock

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...ps072dafd5.jpg

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...psf1c14505.jpg

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3ade8546.jpg

Reedy ti

http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...ps89c542d8.jpg

I'll try to dig out a few more...

One of my first modified motor and most loved is the one below, Parma Yokomo (black can and green sticker), it should be a 19T single.
Very smooth power delivery.
Bye
WWD
:)

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/31/parmaj.jpg