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Posted by N8N on September 29, 2008, 10:36 pm
> Success.
>
> Well Home Depot has nothing in its webpage under motor brush or brush
> motor, and under brush, it has 52 brushes, but all for painting and so
> forth. =A0It also has nothing at the local store, even in the area with
> partitioned boxes of specialty screws.
>
> Lowe's has only one item in the online catalog, a set of brushes for a
> Dremel too;. =A0The closest store is about 5 miles and so I went to the
> local hardware store first.
>
> And the one remaining hardware store on my local shopping street has,
> in its stack of partitioned boxes of specialty screws etc. 3 whole
> boxes of brushes, with about 16 sizes in each box. =A0So about 48
> different sizes! =A048!!! =A0Maybe more.
>
> Thanks, Edwin.
>
> So even though I only went to look, until I can take apart teh motor,
> I bought a pair. 1/4x1/4x1/2"L, but a little longer than that because
> there is a circular stub sticking out, around which goes a spring. =A0
>
> They also had 1/8" longer, which would correspond to the length I was
> told, but maybe it would be too long with its round thing. =A0 Given
> that the first brushes lasted 14 years, I think the new ones will last
> 11 years even if I got brushes that are shorter than they should be.
> And frankly, though there is nothing much wrong now with my 95
> LeBaron, I don't expect the car to last 11 more years. (I always plan
> to keep my car for 20 years, but I've never made it past 7! (total, 14
> years old.)
>
> And I can probably go exchange them at the last minute anyhow, once I
> open the thing. =A0There were several more pairs of each length. =A0
>
> But I bought now on the wierd possibility they could sell every brush
> my size before I get back there. =A0Or get rid of brushes when they
> rearrange their space, as they have a couple times in the last couple
> years (frankly, selling less hardware, and more space for garden
> supplies, or renting power equipment, small and big), or even go out
> of business =A0(I sure hope not.)
>
> $3.71 each. =A0 Complete with the necessary braided wire coming out of
> the tail end, and a spring around that (which I will probably remove,
> because this motor has its own springs)
>
> Let's hear it for real hardware stores, instead of home improvement
> centers.
amen. BTW Jandorf is the name that comes to mind that supplies most
of the hdwe. stores with their motor brush assortments, but their web
site is useless when trying to find a catalog page with dimensions (in
case they make something that you can use but your local store doesn't
stock.)
A while back I seemed to come across nonfunctional Stewart-Warner
"pulse drive" tach senders every so often, my then-local hardware
store probably was very confused as to why I kept coming in and buying
the same part number brush over and over again :) I was simply
rewiring them (the wire was regular old 16/3 extension cord wire) and
putting new brushes in them and selling them to people with old
Studebaker Hawks whose tachs didn't work...
nate
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