Replacement for Graham Farish coreless motors

[Paul80]

Hi all

 

Anyone know of a supplier for replacement Coreless motors of the type used by Graham Farish in their newer loco drive models

 

Basic spec is 7x16mm 12 volt shaft at one end only.

 

Anyone found anything close, the size is often used in mini drones but those motors are 3.7 volts so would be killed at out voltages.

 

Anyone know a supplier.

 

Obviously I can get them from Bachmann but they are about £20 each from them, so looking for something a little more cost effective.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

Edited August 2, 2019 by Paul80

[Joseph_Pestell]

For any decent ( and not sourced from China directly) motors. £20+ seems to be coming the norm.

 

There is a guy that specialises in motors for 2mm/N but I am having a senior moment with regards to his name.

[Kris]

9 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

There is a guy that specialises in motors for 2mm/N but I am having a senior moment with regards to his name.

 

Nigel Lawton - His motors generally need resistors as they are 6v. 

[Gareth Collier]

Worth a look: https://tramfabriek.nl/motors.html

[HalfTheSizeTwiceTheFun]

I've bought several 12v motors from tramfabriek's UK e-bay store, including one of their kits for converting a Farish N gauge 08. They also sell double-axle versions for big diesels, and am in the process of converting a Dapol Hymek to DCC sound.

[ianLMS]

 

On 03/08/2019 at 10:15, Gareth Collier said:

Worth a look: https://tramfabriek.nl/motors.html

I use them in my OO gauge kit builds and they seem to perform very well using DCC. They are 7mm x 16mm so should fit nicely in a N gauge loco.  His motors use a 1mm shaft, either single or twin. He can also supply a 1mm i/d brass tube to make up the correct thickness to fit a 1.5/2.0mm worm. The only issue is no mounting holes to fit kit gearboxes/motor mounts - probably not an issue for RTR locos. 

Edited November 30, 2020 by ianLMS

[Robert Shrives]

BR lines are now showing a coreless with the spring style universal joint section and 4 white bearing units for around £20 - while not to much away from a Bachmann price it does have the risky bit of faffing with shafts done. 

Being about the size of the old farish armature I was hoping to use as a replacement in the dmu and railcar chassis that had the extra pairs  of gears to lift the drive level in the chassis.

Robert   

[KevTheBusDriver]

I bought a Tramfabreik 'Farish (Poole) Class 37 Conversion kit' which arrived yesterday. I have a 1981-vintage 37 which is really noisy, but runs well with the 3-pole motor until it gets hot, it also has issues with a slipping drive dog at one end! It does, however, have brass gears which do not/will not split! The fitting instructions online omitted the fact that the early Farish 37s had the motor pole pieces RIVETTED to the chassis - that took a bit of sorting out. I managed to remove the bit of metal around the lower brush housing and the corresponding upper plastic one without using the end mill they recommend. The new motor fits a treat and was easy to join to the worm drive shafts using the silicone tube provided (I used a 9mm length at one end and 10mm at the other). I soldered really tiny (but flexible) wires (about 3" long) to the motor and ran them up to the top plate.  I didn't solder the wires at the top end - I used Poole's 'technique' of squeezing the wires under a relevent screw head!  A test run without the body on showed it runs really slow and quiet. It's a little noisier with the body back on but it runs very nice, plodding around at about a scale 35mph. It appears on a YouTube video I made today, too. Search YouTube with 'Walsall N Gauge' then look for 'A final look at WL102...'.