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Here we're attaching the back magnet rotor to the hub. Again, we have to really becareful around these magnet rotors, the hub - wrenches... anything made of steel oriron is strongly attracted to these magnets. Notice how we're using nuts, and washersto serve as spacers between the magnet rotors. Better would be to machine aspacer, it can take time to get things perfect using nuts and washers.

Next we grease the wheel bearings, and mount the hub, with the back rotor to themachine. Then we can adjust the bearing and insert the cotter pin into the castlenut that holds it all on the spindle.

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We mount the stator so there's about a 3/32" gap between it and the back magnetrotor.

Pictured above you can see the 3 jacking screws we use to carefully lower the frontmagnet rotor into position. The magnet rotors must be aligned, so that wherever wehave a N pole on one rotor, there will be an opposing S pole on the other rotor.When we placed the magnets down on the disks, we ground an 'index mark' into thesides of each rotor so that we can be sure to get them together properly.

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So here we have a finished machine, except for the wooden parts! At this time wecould test it. The cut-in speed is about exactly 75 rpm so all is good! It's prettyimpressive how stiff an alternator of this size becomes when you short out all 3phases. If you spin it up by hand nice and fast... and then short it - there's animpressive flash (like a welder) and it 'bangs' to a dead stop instantly. Lots of fun...

I had my freind and neighbor Scott build my blades from laminated Cedar. He has anice wood shop, he can do them in a fraction of the time I can - and it saves a messin my shop! We came up with a very simple 'formula' for these blades so that they'dbe easy to make - and easy to replicate. They are 6" wide at the tips, about 14" wideat the widest point near the root and the taper is straight. They are 8 1/2' long tomake a total diameter of 17'. They are pitched 3 deg at the tip, and 6 deg at thehalfway point (radius =4.25'). This all makes the front of the blade a completely flatsurface, that can be made very easily on a planer with a simple jig.

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Pictured above is the tips of the blades, you can see the very simple airfoil. Thethickest part of the airfoil is 1/8" as thick as the blade is wide, so at the tips we're3/4" thick, at the half way point we're about 1.5" thick, and it tapers to maximumthickness of 2" near the root of the blades.

The blades will be sandwiched between two plywood hubs. These hubs are 26" indiameter and made from 3/4" thick Baltic Birch plywood. Baltic Birch plywood issuper tough stuff... and it holds up well to the weather. It's much stronger thanordinary 3/4" plywood.

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Here we're assembling the blades. I stained the hubs black and we coated everythingwith a thick coat of linseed oil. There are 3 bolts through the hub/blade assembly foreach blade - so a total of 9 bolts help hold the blades in and squeeze this whole'sandwich' together. First we assemble it all and just 'snug' the bolts up so that wecan still make adjustments to the position of the blades.

</ center> Here George and Scott and measuring tip to tip on the blades to makesure they're positioned properly. Once that's done, we can tighten up all the boltsand put in a bunch of wood screws. On this one, we have 15 wood screws into eachside of each blade - through the hubs, for a total of 90 wood screws in the wholeassembly.

I forgot to get pictures of the tail. The tail is kind of 'arrow shaped' - basicly its about2 1/2' wide and 5' tall, for about 12 square feet of total area. Its made from verystrong 1/4" thick Baltic Birch plywood, which we also stained black and coated withlinseed oil. It's bolted onto the tail boom with 4 bolts.

So there we have it, a finished machine!

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