Re: (ET) Elec-trak general questions.

[Charlie <medievalist gmail com>]

If anyone has one of these 36vdc lift motors, I'd dearly love to have
any part number or labeling information from it.

--Charlie


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:16 PM,  <Reo43 aol com> wrote:
> On  Wed, 30 Nov 2011 Chris Tromley ctromley gmail com wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 3.  Not sure, but I think my EGT-150 (same as  GE ET, but two parent
>> companies later) has a 36V lift motor.  It  probably bolts right into 
>> your
>> ET if you can find one.
>
> Chris, I have a New Idea EGT-120 and have owned several GE  tractors. The
> NI lift motor is entirely different from the car window motor  used on 
> the GE
> tractors. I have seen comments on this list that some of these  were made
> for 36 volts and they were marked with an orange dot. Mine did not  have 
> an
> orange dot and the tractor was wired to run the lift motor from 18 
>  volts, so
> I left it that way.
>
> When I converted my NI to a front mower deck I found that the front
> bumper/crosspiece did not have the derrick required for a front deck - 
> these  were
> supplied as a separate part for NI. I used a front bumper from a GE that
> already had the derrick welded to it, and I had to redill the holes to 
> mount
> the  New Idea lift motor. Not a big deal, but it did require some 
>  adapting.
>
> The biggest problem would be finding one of these New Idea motors. Maybe
> our suppliers might have one of these.
>
> Erv Troyer
> Lagrange IN
>
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