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I must say that what WCW did to your stator may work, but what a mess

soulsurfer wrote:I must say that what WCW did to your stator may work, but what a mess

It did work briefly but then it wouldn't start and was reading open circuit on the LT coil. Much pulling and poking eventually revealed a break in the green close to the LT coil but by then I'd lost faith in the thing and WCW

soulsurfer wrote:I must say that what WCW did to your stator may work, but what a mess

Couldn't agree more Mike. As a time served electrical fitter, it was one of the jobs we had to do during my apprenticeship at H M Dockyard Devonport, and if I had turned that stator in to my instructor, I would have got a bollocking.p155 poor craftsmanship.

Ahah, another HM Dockyard apprentice eh? I was a Chatham Dockyard apprentice, transferred to AUWE Portland when Maggie closed Chatham Obviously an eye for detail

must admit their quality soon dropped off after customers getting upset about the pickups they fitted

As mentioned above, Adam was true to his work and kindly sent me some pictures of the stator that he re-wound some years ago. It looks to be amazingly neat especially as he did it using a pencil and his foot as a tensioner. I just hope mine are as good.







The wire used looks to be at least one size bigger that the 2 stators that I currently have which is a shame as the spool of wire I have ordered is also that size Hey ho, it's all experimentation and J1MS has given me food for thought with the parallell windings. I think I will bring all of the coil wires outside the mag housing so that I can swap between parallell and series connections.

I'm also toying with the idea of knocking up some sort of rig to spind the flywheel and stator up without it being fitted to the engine as all the revving will drive my neighbours up the wall I was thinking along the lines of a mag housing and half a crankshaft and using an electric motor of some sort to spin it. Maybe use different size pulleys to achieve some set revs? I have an Indian 150 crank with a bent rod but I have a feeliung that the taper will be wrong?

colin

Hi Colin - Ive got a WWW spare stator that doesn't work if you want to pull it about for tests etc- Give me a shout and I'll pop it in the post.

soulsurfer wrote:Ahah, another HM Dockyard apprentice eh? I was a Chatham Dockyard apprentice, transferred to AUWE Portland when Maggie closed Chatham Obviously an eye for detail

pah dockyard apprentices. armament depot was the way to do your apprenticeship. i was an apprentice fitter/turner but we could turn our hands to anything, i rewound a set of rally stator coils to 12v when i was an apprentice and it was much neater than the stator shown here and i wasnt even a leccy.

I was a fitter/turner too

^... Colin, thanks for posting the photos. I've had zero chance to upload them to a host site, etc. so do appreciate you posting them. However, would it be rude of me to point out that photo 2 seems to have been posted twice? That said, it took me 20 minutes of playing 'spot the difference' before I realised that it was the same

WCW... yeah, looks a bit half-hearted!

Adam