Best Place To Buy Electric Motors

I've bought motors and drives online at Electric Motor Wholesale with success.
 
Used motors I would look on Craiglist. You can see them and typically hear them run turn the shaft and feel for clunkyness that would indicate bad bearings. It saves you on shipping as well. If you want new, TSC has motors that are pretty good. From there if your pockets are deep go to MSC or Grainger. They will have anything that is possibly available or can have it in a days time. Those of course are new and that comes at a cost. But there is no question of quality with MSC or Grainger. It will be top quality stuff.
 
Steelyards sometimes have a pile of motors that with luck you can pick a good one out of, and often they will let you test it- bring a cord with alligator clips and a meter.
Mark S.
Also they sometimes turn up in the oddest places, like Goodwill and Salvation Army.
 
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