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Author Topic: Fire, fire. Oh,not again.  (Read 955 times)

Offline Ty Marcucci

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Fire, fire. Oh,not again.
« on: August 27, 2013, 09:22:10 PM »
Yep, set fire to my Profile elctric Cavalier. A good buddy and I were resetting the rpm and time, test running it and it caught fire. Well, we replaced everything except the motor. Still no joy. Today I removed the motor and replaced it with an new one, same brand, size, etc. The old one, upon being disassembled, was found to have a few tiny pieces of metal inside.

The big problem is learning that these things are in fact strong magnets and placing them on a beat up work bench allows them to attract tiny metal parts one would never give second thought to. After all, a Fox will not attract metal fragments, but may give you a few. H^^ D>K
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Re: Fire, fire. Oh,not again.
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2013, 04:16:09 PM »
Yea, I was thinking about that. Thought I should probably disassemble the new motor and clean it before using it. It has sat on the bench a bit. Saw dust if nothing else.
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Re: Fire, fire. Oh,not again.
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2013, 10:04:48 PM »
Ty,

What timer/speed controller were you using?
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