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NATHAN KILLIAN
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    All of those motors are very rare and valuable to my knowledge.  the first looks to be a Callie RBM, the second a Callie liberty twin, the third a koban RBM of some sort.  I highly doubt you will ever find parts for them because anybody who has one will be looking for parts as well, and will not sell it for parts.  I would only do a mechanical restoration on the liberty twin because it looks to be in good shape.  you could restore the other two, but if they were my motors, I would rather keep them as original as possible and just do a light cleaning and a mechanical only restoration.  If they weren’t so far away from Wisconsin, I would definitely ask if I could buy them, although they would probably be out of my current price range.  If you want to sell them, they would probably sell pretty fast for a good buck.  As far as what to do with them, that is up to you (or your friend, if he keeps them).  You could use any of them as really cool wall hangers, or you could fix them and have one of under 100(I suspect) running examples of each motor.  The most important thing to think about before selling them if you are considering that is that you will probably never find one for less than market price should you decide to require one(and manage to find one for sale).  Try to get one running.  It’s fun(and less dangerous than you’d think) to start a motor by spinning the flywheel by hand.

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