I made my own wrapper many moons ago and I bought the motor from an unnamed @#$%& site. Well thanks to an unforeseen design flaw on my part it is dying a slow painful death and I need another motor before this one pukes. The one I bought was a 40 rpm (which I can find on the unnamed @#$%& site again) but I want to step up the rpm's a little this time maybe to a 60 rpm(yeah I know, BIG leap there Dave lol). I'm hoping that some of you guys have built your own wrapper's and may have some idea as to where I can find one of these little motors at a price that won't require a couple of extra mortgages on the house. I've been sitting here for an hour googling every combination of rpm-motor-60-permanent magnet that I can think of and I give up. I even found the company that made this motor but can't find a distributor (cramer co.). Anyway, I'm sure I'm reaching here but hopefully one of you can help.

David Page
E-town, KY.

Find a thrift store or similar and get yourself a sewing machine with pedal. take motor from sewing machine and pedal WALA! instant power. Go another step to a sponsor to the left side of this board and get yourself a rheostat to control motor speed. I would say about 50$ invested. I like having the ability to control my pacbay wrapper motor with the rheostsat. Just my thoughts for a quik power solution.

Kern Davis, Lady Lake Fl.

David,
After trying many different motors, I have finally settled on the use of DC gear motors for my wrapper motors.
I have motors of 200,500 and 1000 rpm. The slower motors are best when doing quite intricate wraps. Just better low speed control.

But the bulk of my wrapping is done with the 1000 rpm motor. I trypically am running wide open when I am doing the long butt wraps on some of the bigger rods that I do. But the control is still good enough to do a nice wrap on the very short micro guides.

I use 24 or 30 volt dc gear motors, and use a 0-30 volt variable voltage power supply that is controlled by a correctly designed foot control.

If you have further questions, just drop me a line.

Roger

hflier@comcast.net.

By the way, if you wanted a sewing machine style motor, I have a dozen or so that I would sell at a fair price.