Dia. Mag. Alternator

[z.monkey]

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[z.monkey]

OK, gotta have a way to hold this thing down when I put the torque to it...

I fabricated this mounting plate to hold everything together...

[z.monkey]

Replicators...

[shylo]

Hi still waitng for next installement......looks like a great project..........excellent workmanship...patiently waiting.....shylo

[z.monkey]

Howdy Shylo,

Thank you for your praise and your patients.  This project has been a mountain of work.  I think I am downclimbing the back side now.  This weekend I have been deburring the the alternator plates.  These are steel, so they have lots of little, extremely sharp bits of metal here and there that need to be filed off.  Machining the steel plates with a mill creates flake like shards that get rolled up into these microscopic steel splinters from Hell.  I probably have several thousand permanently embedded in my fingers.  If they are large enough to get a tweezers tips on them I can pull them out.  But some are so small that I have to wait for the exfoliation process of my skin to get them out.  Fun fun...

So, now that I have the alternator plates deburred I can laminate the plates, and then start the assembly process.  I'm using a clear polyurethane paint for the "lamination".  I think I can build up several coats to get maybe 5 mils of space between the plates.  This is something that needs to be experimented with.  What is the optimum plate spacing?  Is there a maximum limit?  Could plate spacing make the difference between a normal alternator, and something exhibiting overunity?  Well, were gonna do about a thousand experiments to figure that out...

Here are the alternator plates in the laminating process...