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Do you guys do anything with your motors after they get dunked?
Oops,,I assumed,,,I didn't see/notice it was an FE forum,,Us old nitro heads think every motor/engine has a piston lol,,Thanks for pointing it out Mic,,cheersI assume since the question is posted in an FE forum we are not talking about piston motors. Hate to see anyone flush an electric motor with anything that might harm wires, coating or epoxies. CorrosionX is the best.
Mic
Always amazed me how those insulation coatings stood up to the pressure,I remember those open class slot car motors with 16-20 turns/pole, 24gauge wire,3 pole pulling quite a few amps and a zillion revs at 12-16V,almost red hot and not failing,,some secret proprietary hi temp epoxy you couldn't buy at your local shop I supposedAfter clean out and flushing. If you could put a little heat on the motor with a heat gun or in a oven for around 120 degrees. This will dry the winding. For about an hour. Just enough to warm the motor to the touch. Even thou the voltage is not that high on the smaller cell packs the bigger ones could blow a hole from one phase to another in the winding when you put full power to the motor. Motor will be dead from that point.
We clean windings all the time with a steam cleaner to remove greases. We then dry in our bake ovens at 300 degrees for about 4 hours. We put more time on it if the motor is bigger. Of course we are dealing with motors that the voltage can be 120vac to 4160vac. The higher the voltage the higher the blow between phases or to ground.
They sell a paint called Glyptal... it's an electric motor epoxy paint for painting windings...not sure about the actual coating on the bare copper winding itself... I'm sure that is some proprietary blend known only to the manufacturer.
I use Glyptal to seal the inside of engine blocks and heads to help seal the cast iron and speed oil return to the pan..
http://www.glyptal.com/glyptal_products.html
You could purchase an inexpensive megohmeter... it will keep track of insulation breakdown over time...
https://www.amazon.com/Supco-M500-I...=1&keywords=megohmmeter&qid=1625670539&sr=8-4
Cheers Frank,,Yeah,,whatever they use on the bare copper,,it's pretty tuff stuffThey sell a paint called Glyptal... it's an electric motor epoxy paint for painting windings...not sure about the actual coating on the bare copper winding itself... I'm sure that is some proprietary blend known only to the manufacturer.
I use Glyptal to seal the inside of engine blocks and heads to help seal the cast iron and speed oil return to the pan..
http://www.glyptal.com/glyptal_products.html
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