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I have some servos with bad electronics. I'm in the process of converting them into geared motors by removing the electronics and the pin that limits the servos to 180 degrees. I found out that two servos also have bad motors inside them. Is it possible to replace the bad motors with new ones? I searched the Internet and I think that I can't find the right size of motor or I have to buy at least 100 motors from a company in China. The code on the motor is 1723RE-19120. It is about 17mm in diameter and about 27mm in length.

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Is it possible to replace the bad motors with new ones?

Unless there is something special about the broken servo, probably easier and cheaper to just get a new servo and modify if needed.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__84__189__Servos_Parts-All_Servos.html

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Would it not depend on how the electronics was broken ?

If the position feedback potentiometer was broken,  you could remove it and convert to a motor.    But you
would need the rest of the electronics to be working  for the PWM input to work, I would have thought.

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Would it not depend on how the electronics was broken ?

If the position feedback potentiometer was broken,  you could remove it and convert to a motor.    But you
would need the rest of the electronics to be working  for the PWM input to work, I would have thought.

A basic geared motor has two power wires with no electronics.

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I visited Hobby King's website but they list torque in kg-cm only. They don't list torque in oz-in. Any suggestions?

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I visited Hobby King's website but they list torque in kg-cm only. They don't list torque in oz-in. Any suggestions?

Google perhaps? 

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=convert+kg-cm+oz-in&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=

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I am confused about geared motors that I can buy in stores such as http://www.robotshop.com/spur-gearmotors.html. I thought that geared motors are more powerful than servos.