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Robbie speaking for expert village. We talk a little bit about the maintenance on your
electric motor. Brush motors considerably more maintenance there that's required with
them after each run. If you have been running in a dusty environment you need to stop by
your local hobby store and get something like this electric motor cleaner has a little straw
in it like a WD-40 can. You spray it inside the motor; flush it out real good, all the
dust and everything will come out of it. Most of the time you can get away with doing that.
Brushes on these motors do wear so from time to time the brushes will get worn down. You
have to actually physically pull them out of there, put new brushes in solder them in
place, replace the springs to get the motor to come back to life. Also, if you want the
motor to last you'll have to pull the engine apart. You can take it to a hobby store or
someone at a race track and actually have a put it on a lath and have a calm turn with
the lath on it, then you install your new brushes, your new springs. For the most part
you've got you a brand new electric engine. You can turn the engines quite a few times.
It's not expensive to do its just kind of a pain in the neck to have to pull them apart.
Brush motors. On the case, in the case of a brush less motor, like this one we've been
looking at, there is zero maintenance. Brush-less motors are stay together you run them, run
them, run them, and run them till they don't work anymore. That's one of the beauties of
the brush-less motor, so very little maintenance. One of the other things that you got to be
real careful of also to get the proper life out of them is making sure that you don't
generate too much heat, in other wards you got to gear them properly. There's numerous
different sizes of pinions that you can buy for these. All of these pinions are going
to change the speed that the car runs at so if you're driving around real slow you want
to gear the car with a pinion, ok, or a lower speed pinion. If you're going to be doing
a lot of high speed runs, you put a higher speed pinion on there. The goal for that is
keeping the motor running in its design operating rpm's and you'll just adjust that with running
the appropriate pinion and of course tire size on it as well.