...the mags had rotted on this blue wonder,
i
posted it in Electric Motor Design and Construction awhile back but got little interest or comment,,
and i didnt recognize anyone over in that neighborhood anymore,,
ive a fondness for em, great little 3D foamie motors, even rewound a couple yrs ago...
thought i'd take a stab at it...
basically the motor was locked-up tight,
so i made a 6-point wooden JIG, that would poke thru the Bell cooling holes, and Into the stator/tube assembly,
and using a green aluminum tube (from salvaged copier parts)
to allow for some clearance, else the bearing tube wouldve 'bottom-out' against the vice jaws...
actually the TUBE was just the Perfect Diameter to push against the magnets (and/or thus the Bell...)
whilst the Jig pushed against the stator from the top/front,
in the end i didnt actually glue the pegs into the ply base (as i mayve needed to utilize only 3 of the 6
if/when things didnt align accurately...) fortunately this allowed some wiggle-room which is basically what i did,
re-clamped a cpl times, tried to keep it straight, repositioned it,, tappa-tappa w/a light hammer,,
was about to give up when i WIGGLED the cr*ap out of it, then removed it from the vice and it came out.
i think i just got lucky maybe.
I initially hoped i could just re-mag it and move on,
after seeing how locked up it was i feared destroying it during this process,,
again, got lucky,, as it came out fairly intact as far as the Stator
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