Micro Mark motors

Those are 5 pole skew wound motors. They run smooth because of the 5 poles and the skewed winding. Any motor with these kind of specs are good. Also I think you'll find these motors are made overseas to the west of us, meaning China. Take a look on e-bay and you'll probably find them even cheaper. Here's a link to a few motors. Note they show 5 pole skew wound motors.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0&_nkw=5+pole+skew+motors&_sacat=0&_from=R40

Bernd

Not sure.....

I just got my Micro Mark motors, bought on the above mentioned sale .  They have a stamped logo on them that looks strangely like the Bachmann logo.  Haven't run one yet....time will tell.  Hopefully better than the ancient motors in some very old Athearn locos I have, which is what they are intended for.

Run extremely smooth!

Just installed one for a friend in an Athearn chassis and runs very smooth.  Has very good slow speed control and is fairly quiet.  I used the tradition Athearn drive line couplings but Micromark does sell their own set of drive shafts. Let us know how yours works out.

micromark motor

I REPLACED 3 BLACKMAN  G SCALE STREET CAR MOTORS THAT LASTED ONLY  8 TO 12 HRS.  WITH MICROMARK MOTORS HAVE SHOWN AT 4 TRAIN SHOWS  2 DAYS AT EACH SHOW NO PROBLEMS. HIGHLY SATISFIED . THEY RUN ABOUT 8 HRS. PER DAY ONLY LUBE BEFORE EACH SHOW.  

Video or photo documentation??

Anyone have video or photo of the install process? Got an old Life-like E8 I'm working on for a friend and it looks like it's going to need a complete gut and re-motor job.

In a RPP SD40

Here's one in a SD40.  The frame is cobbled together from a couple different Athearn frames.

The motor is mounted on a brass L, à la steam engine style.  The drive shafts are 1/16 steel rod with hex nuts soldered to the end.  The other end is fitted into a hole in the normal Athearn coupling.  The NCE decoder is on another brass bracket.  It runs pretty well, there is a slight jump going from speed step 0 to 1 but not really noticeable in a consist. 

Paul

3-pole or 5-pole?

I don't have the exact link at hand, but over on these discussions under "Repower & Regear" I recall there being mentioned that their was another replacement can motor being sold by MicroMark that was a 3-pole can motor, rather than 5-pole motor. They made mention to avoid that one.