Re: [Amc-list] Made a boo boo today

["RetroRalph" <retroralph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had always understood the differential in the terms was whether or not the device was actually making or generating it's own power as in an internal combustion engine does and an electric motor does not.

The electric motors use an outside source for the power and merely acts to convert that power to a physical motion or movement.  It is the same with such as hydraulic motors.  

Steam engines also generate their own power as generally consists in part of the burners and boilers to build the power or energy to run itself and propel the device.

Others may have their own ideas on this.  Suit yourselves. Who wants to grow up?
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Ralph Ausmann  -  Hillsboro, OR -

   From: Frank Swygert 
  I had a discussion of motor vs. engine recently. In a small nutshell, an engine is mechanical, a motor is electrical, or converts a force to useable energy in other than mechanical means (I don't think there IS anything other than an electric motor that isn't mechanical, but then the rubber band of a toy airplane is the motor....). An internal combustion engine can be a motor, but an electric motor is never an engine. That's the one that's confusing! The engine sitting on a stand (test or rebuilding) is an engine, once it's installed in the car it's a motor, as it provides motive force to/for the vehicle. So technically the terms engine and motor can both be correctly applied to an automotive power plant. 

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  From: Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>

  I'm trying to get that motor installed today. Hey, I just recalled the long discussion on the list about "motor" versus "engine" a few years ago.  No one seems to care now.  Maybe we grew up.
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  Frank Swygert
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