[jgerig42]

Dunno if you wanna say where you are, but... the thing about forklifts is literally everywhere in the industrial world has to have a place that services them in just about every city over 50,000. Everyone needs forklifts, everyone needs a place to fix them.

I have a sweetheart deal with mine. They'll move a forklift up on jackstands for me, outside the gate, and I can come help myself to it at night over a week or two, gutting what I want off it. And they don't charge me for anything I take. And I can occasionally borrow tools when there's something I don't have big enough tools to tear up. And they leave me deserts sometimes. The tradeoff is I show them pictures of what I'm working on.

Dude, Where are you located and if you're not too far will you sell me a motor?!
I'm in the Los Angeles, CA area and am having trouble locating one. When I call repair shops or forklift scrappers they all seem confused and say something like "No, we repair motors, we don't sell motors" like I'm crazy for asking.

I mean... mechanics repair engines but most of them still have one or two lying around that they'd sell if you asked

 

[jgerig42]

Maybe try Bakersfield, Go to the shops with money in hand if you have been getting no where with calling. Which it sounds like. Ask the forklift repairmen if they know of anyone that has an old DC forklift motor. I understand The asking in person money in hand works sometimes.

Write down what you are trying to do, maybe people will understand.
keep an eye out for deals craigslist, bulletin board, friends, family, co workers etc
later floyd

All good advice, thanks!