(ET) Lift motor ideas?

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

What is the current thinking on the best option for replacing a lift 
motor? 

After almost 14 years of yeoman duty at a no doubt perspiration-inducing 
24 
volts, my E15's lift motor finally failed Friday, during a long 
snow-ramming 
session.  It started making an odd gravely noise, and shortly thereafter 
switched to grumbling and refusing to lift the blade more than a couple of 
inches.  Then it quit working altogether, though it went back to grumbling 
old man mode after it had a chance to cool (guess there's a thermal 
protector in there).

I dug my poor long-suffering parts tractor out of the snow.  A couple 
hours 
later I was back in the snow-ramming business, a new old lift motor at 
work.

When I connected 12 volts to the suffering motor on the bench, it cogged 
and 
throbbed mightily, suggesting to me that an armature winding is toast.  I 
haven't yet taken it apart to apply the wisdom of an ohmmeter to it, 
however.

I suppose I could rewind it (or have it rewound) and keep it as a spare.  
Might do that.  But one way or another, having been well apprised of my 
lift 
motor's mortality (if not my own), I should like to be prepared for the 
next 
failure.

What are the best-dressed ETs wearing for lift motors these days?


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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