Argosy Motor Replacement

As you may recall from the last post, the score motor was in sad shape and needed repair or replacement.

I contacted a vendor (Steve Young at pbresource.com ) who makes replacements and ordered one. Steve is a great guy to work with and the motor arrived quickly and worked great.

Unfortunately, as Steve carefully explained, the replacement part has a different set of mounting holes than the original.

old and new score motors

The solution was to drill and tap a new set of holes in the old motor mount. So I ran down the the hardware store with the bolt in hand. A few bucks later I had a tapper and made short work of the hole:

tapping the hole

And the new motor was mounted to the bracket:

I then did a quick test by connecting the motor wires and turning the unit on:

And it worked beautifully. Next step is to put the motor back into the machine and see if it boots up correctly.