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Spotted this on facebook thought this group might enjoy. Jim

A kids first electric motor!

Back in the day when I was in junior high this motor project was a extra credit project. I made one and used a train transformer to make it run. It was well received by the teacher and got me an A for the semester. This was in the early 1960's.

just sayin'

brasscarguy

Looks like someone put the motor in backwards.

I remember buying or building parts like that. Borrow a few cents from Grandma and ride your bike to the electronics store.

That is a few real neat photos. Thank you for sharing.

Brought back memories!!!
When I was a kid we made electric motors out of paper clips....
There was a Time Life series of books in the 60's about various sciences, in the book of electricity they had the plans on how to build.
One difference between then & now....kids don't tinker anymore...

Still have my time life paper clip motor, and a couple of others. These were great learning projects that took a bit of tinkering to get them working properly, sadly something today's youth have no interest in.

LOL!!! THERE IT IS!!!!!

OK, how many of ya fellow old farts made rubberband powered wood thread spool racers?