Re: (ET) hot motor

["RJ Kanary" <rjkanary nauticom net>]

       Permanent magnet motor ? If so, did you mark the brush end bell 
orientation before disassembly? If not, that could be the culprit. The GE 
and made for GE motors have tabs and slots to prevent this. Just a 
thought.................

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Dennis" <wombatt gmail com>
To: "et" <Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: (ET) hot motor


> Lets see if this one bounces !!
>
> I just pulled one of the mower motors from the JD, it was running "weak"
> andgot hot enough to burn off one of the motor terminal wires at the
> chassis connector [;-[   It seems to spin over ok by hand, I put in a
> new lower bearing this spring (the old one was getting noisy) and hope I
> got it together right - it has been running weak since then but sees to
> by slowly dying.
>  Any thoughts as to what I could look for or what i may have screwed
> up, it had been ok before the teardown.
>
> wombat
>
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