Good brushed motor?
11-18-2008, 10:52 PM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
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Well actually the regualar brushes provide better contact. Looks like Orion copied Checkpoint with the springs.
Well actually the regualar brushes provide better contact. Looks like Orion copied Checkpoint with the springs.
11-18-2008, 11:37 PM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
Yeah, I think if you were to take measurements and do the math the orion's definitely have more of a contact patch. That would be the only reason to put them at an angle like that.
How in the heck do I take the springs and brushes out first? When I examined it before I installed it in my LB I couldn't see a way to do it. That's what confused me about that motor.
How in the heck do I take the springs and brushes out first? When I examined it before I installed it in my LB I couldn't see a way to do it. That's what confused me about that motor.
11-18-2008, 11:41 PM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
ok you see the screws on the motor that are holding the brushes on? unscrew that then just pull the whole thing out. the only way to put it back in is go from the inside and lead the circle tab thing through the inside then hold it so the brushes arent in the way and there you go. PM me if you need help on its its kinda tricky but i found an easy way to do it 
11-18-2008, 11:50 PM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
1yep go for it good luck to. its not hard trust me. i experminited (sp?) on the speed gems i had and now thats my race motor not my orion lol.
good luck to. its not hard trust me. i experminited (sp?) on the speed gems i had and now thats my race motor not my orion lol.
11-18-2008, 11:53 PM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
I had no idea Trinity still made the speed gems series of motors! I remeber running Onyxs, Saphires, Diamonds, etc... when I was like 7 years old. That's been twenty years!
Or is your motor vintage?[X(]
I remeber running Onyxs, Saphires, Diamonds, etc... when I was like 7 years old. That's been twenty years! Or is your motor vintage?[X(]
11-19-2008, 12:06 AM
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They always were way back in the day too! Those were actually the best you could get in the late eighties/early nineties as far as I'm concerned. It's all we ever ran, and we never maintained them back then as we were little kids!!!
11-19-2008, 12:09 AM
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haha ya i was like 11 or 12 when i got it and just got the comm cut about 3 runs ago
here is what trinity has...no speed gems though
http://www.teamtrinity.com/shop/product.asp?go=1
here is what trinity has...no speed gems though
http://www.teamtrinity.com/shop/product.asp?go=1
11-19-2008, 12:11 AM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
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Yeah, I think if you were to take measurements and do the math the orion's definitely have more of a contact patch. That would be the only reason to put them at an angle like that.
How in the heck do I take the springs and brushes out first? When I examined it before I installed it in my LB I couldn't see a way to do it. That's what confused me about that motor.
Yeah, I think if you were to take measurements and do the math the orion's definitely have more of a contact patch. That would be the only reason to put them at an angle like that.
How in the heck do I take the springs and brushes out first? When I examined it before I installed it in my LB I couldn't see a way to do it. That's what confused me about that motor.
11-19-2008, 12:19 AM
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I'll just have my buddy who is a top notch engineer look at it and tell me. Whatever he says will be 100% correct without a doubt. Hey Chris, weren't you the guy with the laughing face thing? You should post that again; it was hillarious!!!!
Hey Chris, weren't you the guy with the laughing face thing? You should post that again; it was hillarious!!!!
11-19-2008, 12:28 AM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!! I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
11-19-2008, 12:31 AM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
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emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!! I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!!
I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
11-19-2008, 12:39 AM
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See now you remember what I'm talking about!! Anyway, back to topic, he was a mechanical engineer at Dow Chemical. Due to downsizing he now works at a bike shop! Stupid economy!!!
I must say he enjoys working at the shop doing sales, bike repairs, and building bikes more than he liked Dow, but he definitely liked the money at Dow more!He was testing the new rubber for the Goodyear Run Flats for a long time. Tensile strength, compression strength, all of that kind of crap. He's really good at doing all of the math, figures, and testing, but not as good at applying it to custom cars, etc... He's basically the opposite of me. I hate all of the math and crap that goes along with a job like that, but give me some steel, torches, etc... and I will build some wicked stuff.
Anyway, back to topic, he was a mechanical engineer at Dow Chemical. Due to downsizing he now works at a bike shop! Stupid economy!!!I must say he enjoys working at the shop doing sales, bike repairs, and building bikes more than he liked Dow, but he definitely liked the money at Dow more!He was testing the new rubber for the Goodyear Run Flats for a long time. Tensile strength, compression strength, all of that kind of crap. He's really good at doing all of the math, figures, and testing, but not as good at applying it to custom cars, etc... He's basically the opposite of me. I hate all of the math and crap that goes along with a job like that, but give me some steel, torches, etc... and I will build some wicked stuff.
11-19-2008, 12:42 AM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
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emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!! I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!!
I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
11-19-2008, 12:44 AM
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That's about right!!!
DeanR, you should've seen it!!! My god it was hillarious, people were getting so upset!!! I just kept reading it forever lmfao!
DeanR, you should've seen it!!! My god it was hillarious, people were getting so upset!!! I just kept reading it forever lmfao!
11-19-2008, 12:47 AM
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RE: Good brushed motor?
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I wish i could have seen that, lol
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emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!! I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
emaxxman, you were involved too. Some newb asked a question about something and I think you, Chris RC, and someone else got into it for like an hour. I kept chiming in thinking it was hillarious! Someone complained about someone using all the smileys and making it hard to understand his post so then it went smiley crazy!!!!
I think it was Chris who posted a laughing face of like a puritan lookin dude or something. Anyway, it was hillarious! Needless to say almost all of the posts were wiped out within a few hours!
but you know what barber420...you should think of try and building one of your own motors by hand! that would be such an accomplishment!!!!!