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[nievesoliveras]

@all

Here are the photos of the commutator construction progress.
It is made from a cooper straight union.
I learnt that using the half rings leftovers from the cuts makes the future sliprings to slip better.
Now I will take measurements to cut the piece of round wood, the exact center of the dowel in order to drill the center hole and get it all together with epoxy as one solid and sanded smooth commutator or slipring. Then come the brush making process.

It has not been easy, but it has been fun to build this commutator from scratch.
The other options were too expensive for me to achieve.
Using the cut leftovers as shown, solve the rotor stopping problem.

Jesus

[Pirate88179]

@ Jesus:

Nice handiwork there.  I'll bet those work nicely for you.  Plus, you can modify them if needed, since you made them from scratch in the first place.  If one of the expensive ones was not exactly what you wanted, you would be stuck with it.  Nice job.

Bill

[nievesoliveras]

@ Jesus:

Nice handiwork there.  I'll bet those work nicely for you.  Plus, you can modify them if needed, since you made them from scratch in the first place.  If one of the expensive ones was not exactly what you wanted, you would be stuck with it.  Nice job.

Bill

Thank you @pirate !

It still needs a lot of work, but I am happy I did it, even if it fails as everything has till now.

Jesus

[nievesoliveras]

@all

Here are the photos of my first commutator.
The only problem at the moment is that the PC11 glue I used does not want to cure completely. It is still sticky.

Jesus

[Pirate88179]

Jesus:

Maybe try sticking it outside in the sunshine for a bit?  The solar heating might just do the final curing for you.  Nice job there.

Bill