I've hear that a motor from a grocery store check out conveyer is
PERFECT. Strong, small and geared well.

Walt

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:42:20 -0500, "D" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote:

>Well if your gonna do an entire hog then you will need something
>a little more powerful than the average grill rotisserie motor that
>you buy at the outlet house. Trouble is it's gonna be a little hard
>to find anything in between for sale that's strong enough and yet
>not overkill on power and price. Try calling some electric motor
>shops local and ask if they have anything that will run at low rpm
>for very long without overheating. Tell them exactly what you have
>in mind. Actually any used washer or dryer motor would do it but
>you'd have to use a "huge" pulley to gear it down enough to turn
>slow. A friend of mine once ran a sugar cane mill with one of these
>by running it thru a series of pulley step downs. Good luck with it.
>



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