slide/ rail question

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Since the last time, I have found a couple of new places. First, this place is as the owner describes it " we are the bottom feeders of the industrial auction, if nobody wants it , we'll take it". There is more stuff for the stuff, every thing from fork lifts to fire trucks and in between. There are 3 acres under roof and another 5 acres of stuff outside. I did manage to find a large stepper motor, european manufacture, about a 5/8" shaft with an encoder. A lot of the info on the name plate was very faded. Only thing it was a 4 wire motor. Still debating if I should go back and get it.
The second place has more promise, an electronics recycler. I did find and get a large stepper though. It was a Japan Servo Co. model KP88M3-001, 3 volts at 2.5 degrees, 6-wire motor. I have yet to find any information regarding the torque rating on it. Anybody with any ideas as to it's rating? This recycle place is filled with pallets of shrink wrapped computers, printers, keyboards, copy machines and anything electronic. Oh, they let me have the motor for free and have no problems with coming back to look for more.

Evodyne,

Those rails and trucks that I picked up are THK HSR20's. I did see the ones that you had in the classifieds and would love to have a couple of them to make the y and z-axis'. I don't know if I'm just too cheap or just love to scrounge up stuff, the thrill of the hunt I guess. Since I found the THK rails, that's all I look for, I'm hooked. Swede's site is great, well done, I had visited it before on several occasions when I used to lurk in the shadows (no more). He is definitely a perfectionist, you can tell right away he loves what he does.

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Well I broke down and bought a couple of stepper motors off of Ebay. In all of my scrounging I hadn't found a pair of matching motors. The motors that I got were used, made by Applied Motion Products Inc. Model# A093-ED0023, 450oz., 2.3 volt@ 5.5 amps, 6wire with a 3/8" shaft. I tried Googling the manufacture with no luck. I hated to get them without finding any specs or torque curves on them but the price I think was right, $147.00 for the both of them. Now I need to find belts and pulleys.