Broken Shaft on 10T Puller

[alexchen86]

Well anger + brute force is never a good combination.

I ended up breaking the shaft of a 10T Holmes puller. The motor itself has only seen 2-3 1000mah 4s packs...what a shame!



I emailed John already. But what can I do in this situation?

Basic story...I was trying to remove a stubborn set screw to change out a pinon but I put too much blue loctite on apparently and even after heating it and also trying to drill out the pinion I broke the shaft pulling the pinon out.

You can even see that the pinion is STILL on the shaft lol.

[TSK]

Hate to break it to you, but If that's the full size puller, you are pretty much screwed. Those motors have been disco'd for quite a long time.

On a side note, I've NEVER seen something like that before.

[JesterSpec]

I think John has replacement arms for them.

[alexchen86]

Yeah I've been back and forth with John. He doesn't have any replacements left lol. Fortunately a member here has an extra one but I don't know about $45 shipped!!

I'm wondering if I should repair or swap for a new motor....

[JohnRobHolmes]

45 shipped is a good price for a new arm. I did find a pile of unwound arms here over the weekend, but I don't have the tooling made for my winder yet. We would be looking at about $55 for a freshly wound one, the blanks were really damn expensive.

[Cordwood]

You know these motors sell for 50-60 in good working condition, right? Even less if it needs a rebuild.

[killswitch]

You can find gear pullers on Feebay. Well worth the $$. I've had one from bolink that's every bit of 20 years old and it's saved my ass a bunch of times.