What do you guys do with your old silver can motors?

[whale22]

I reckon if I raced and those were the limit I'd run them but I just bash so they mostly live in a box.

Ideas? Suggestions?

[XV Pilot]

I like my motors to be in pretty much peak condition, so when the performance drops off, I give them to my nephews, who run them until the brushes are stumps, the bushing holes are oval and the comms are little more than foil.

[MadInventor]

Run em on 3S LiPo

[speedy_w_beans]

I tend to use them in pan cars for street bashing. The light weight of a pan car lets you gear aggressively, like 3:1, and you can get some nice speed without overheating the motor. Old silver cans and TEU ESCs work very well for this.

[Tamiya1/10]

They all work and i only have on lying around. Some of kits i have don't come with a motor so i am free to pick any i think is ok. And idon't run my models too much so i think they all got lots of rpm left.

[markbt73]

They're pretty much all I run. I do, however, have a box of old modified motors from the 80s/90s sitting around. Eventually i'll build a display rack for them so I can show off the labels.

[KEV THE REV]

I've got one in the front of my Lunchbox runner to weigh the front down - it's held in with molding puttyand tape to add more weight

[Incredible_Serious]

I sent a lot of my old silver cans to a mate for possible racing 540 vintage... for what he paid, I think he paid for postage more than the motors!

If I had a boat, I'd put a bunch of them together and make an anchor out of them....

Even the cars I build up for kids of friends have at least a Sport Tuned in them, or a 27T stock motor (bushes and all!).

Like markbt73, I have boxes of old mod motors too.... but mine aren't worth displaying, so in the boxes they stay!

If I sell a car (eBay/forums/friends), I try to not have a silver can in it.... they just look so sad....

Alex

[oz-trash-cowboy]

My wife keeps threatening to make something (?) out them to do away with me!!!

[Grastens]

I use them to stick things to my refrigerator, collect iron filings, and make tube TV screens turn weird colours!

But seriously, the one motor I have just sits there. Spare silver cans in the past have gotten rotated into vintage projects that get sold without motors (and now I know why they are not equipped as such!).

[dualdigger]

They do work really well on 3s. I run mine in my scalers when running in water and mud.

[jeekelemental]

Nothing I'm a proud Sport Tuned user and every car in my fleet has, at least, a Sport Tuned sitting in place

[MadInventor]

They do work really well on 3s. I run mine in my scalers when running in water and mud.

It gives my Jugg2 all the pep it can handle, without spending a fortune on uprated motors.

[alfagta]

way back before brushless i used to remove the armatures and run them in yokomo budget rebuildable cans with one soft and one medium brush , it would kill the com pretty quick but they could fly for a 27t , these days i have a large bag full of them as the days of brushes are pretty much over for me , thankfully

[Percymon]

I think most of mine (acquired from used purchases) are either still sat on a dusty shelf, or gone to the recycling - if I sell a model with a silver can in, I always put the best i have available in, but with Sport Tuned and Torque Tuned motors so cheap these days its just as easy to put one of those in and bin the old SCs

[RichieRich]

I use them for vintage builds and shelf queens. Currently, I have them installed in pretty much all my Tamiya cars that I have restored. Also, a few runners have them including my TA-02 Toyota, Blackfoot Xtreme and my new re-re Scorpion build.

[Novastar]

I have sold all my silvercans when they were fresh out of the box and replaced most with the Sport Tuned motors.

[dualdigger]

It gives my Jugg2 all the pep it can handle, without spending a fortune on uprated motors.

I used to run them on 3s in my Wraith, I would gear them up and run them hot. They are really tough little motors, the brushes lasted but the bushings would oval after a few months.