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[Alchemist]

I really like the Globe SS-91 motor!

 

I got excited when I first experienced watching and listening to the Globe SS-91 powered slot cars back during the '60s at Model Car Raceway at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. To me, they sounded different from the 16D motor.

 

My tribute version will be to replicate the look of the "Round Can" motor using a brushless motor with the long round body. It isn't the same but aesthetically, it will satisfy my want to have something similar.

 

I'm wanting to try my hand with the brushless motor and figured this will satisfy my desire for the Globe SS-91 look - though much smaller in size.

 

I'm not sure what ESC decoder I'll be using at this time, and the only one I have seen available is from KC Racing but is currently sold out.

 

This is what I have fabricated thus far.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Ernie

 

 

 

 

[Larry Horner]

Ernie,

 

I have been a big fan of your plate chassis design for a long time now and adding a brushless motor to the mix is an awesome idea!

 

Just curious but is your motor carrier 3D-printed?

[Alchemist]

Hi Larry,

 

My "motor bracket" is an NSR Inline motorpod for F1 style 1/32 slot car chassis and doesn't look 3D-printed. I plan to produce for myself a similar motor pod from epoxy in the very near future but it will not be 3D-printed.

 

Thanks for asking, Larry.

 

I just came across your tuning fork sidewinder chassis project and it is exceptional!

 

Did you ever put together a small test track at home?

 

Thanks again!

 

Ernie

[Larry Horner]

Thanks for the kudos on my sidewinder!

 

I've run across some motor carriers such as your on the Shapeways Marketplace so was just curious. As for a home track, not yet but I'm still toying with the idea of getting a 1/24 compatible Carrera track. But Martin was telling me about a track up by him that I need to check out.

 

Looking forward to seeing where your Globe project takes you!

 

Larry

[Alchemist]

Hi Larry,

 

I believe the track that Martin mentioned is a place called "Fundemonium" - hobby store with an indoor R/C course and a mini King built by Cruzin' Bob, located in Rohnert Park.

 

I know the owner Steve and I had an opportunity to visit last Thanksgiving when I came to California to visit my children.

 

Here's a link:  https://www.fundemon...com/?s=slot car

 

Thanks, Larry!

 

Ernie

[Bill Seitz]

As you probably know, the Globe was an industrial motor that just happened to be a size that would fit in a slot car, so it was marketed to the hobby. It's construction for the industrial market was quite different from the Mabuchi motors that dominated the mid to later '60s. I seem to remember another similar industrial motor that was marketed for slot cars after Globe's entry, but I don't remember any details or brand.

 

GE motors were another re-purposed, small, commercial motor. A friend discovered these motors were commonly found in a brand of hand-held blow dryers well into the '70s and recovered a number of them from burned=out blow dryers. The motor was wired in series with the dryer's heating element which dropped the household line voltage to the motor, and a simple diode rectifier converted the AC to DC. Who'd have figured you could find a slot car motor inside a consumer blow dryer? Of course. in recent times, slot racers have used motors from electric toothbrushes and paintball guns.