Brush question

[bookneeeye]

Can you switch from a regular straight serrated brush to a cross-serrated
brush ?

The reason I ask is I reckon the straight serrated cuts grooves into the
commutator while the cross-cut does not. Ive just ordered a Chameleon2 Pro
and from what I can tell it comes with straight serrated brushes. I ordered
some 4504's along with it, so should I just start out with these or the ones
that come with it stock ? (4499).

Thanks,
Just a newbie slowly figuring this stuff out.

- Boo

[Bob Seay]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:07:36 GMT, "bookneeeye"
<bookneeeye@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Can you switch from a regular straight serrated brush to a cross-serrated
>brush ?
>
>The reason I ask is I reckon the straight serrated cuts grooves into the
>commutator while the cross-cut does not. Ive just ordered a Chameleon2 Pro
>and from what I can tell it comes with straight serrated brushes. I ordered
>some 4504's along with it, so should I just start out with these or the ones
>that come with it stock ? (4499).
>
>Thanks,
>Just a newbie slowly figuring this stuff out.
>
>- Boo
>
Yes, you can use crosscut brushes on ANY motor(as long as it allows
the right size of brush, I'm not sure if there are any crosscut
standup type brushes, though there are for laydown & P-94 type brush
hoods). However, I would recommend that you retrue the commutator
before you install the new brushes(which goes for changing any
brushes, serrated or not, crosscut or not). And by the way, the
crosscuts do seem to work nicely, I've been trying them on my Revenge
of the Monster Horsepower stock motors for awhile, & they do seem to
reduce the comm wear some, without sacrificing power to do so....:)