https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Jeff+Bouas 2026-04-26T07:01:26Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.39.13 https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=Talk:Electric_Motor_Generator&diff=59875 2012-04-19T17:02:17Z

<p>Jeff Bouas: /* Magnet From Raw Materials */ Adding timestamp to my signature.</p> <hr /> <div>==Cheaper to buy==<br /> Assorted motors can be bought in bulk as scrap items from garbage disposal facilities. In my limited experience most of them work ok. I forget exactly but basically you're looking at around scrap value. One batch of motors should keep a community going a long time.<br /> <br /> Here...<br /> http://www.recycleinme.com/search/selloffers__motors.aspx<br /> <br /> Another possibility is to accept scrap items from households locally. Either way it should be entirely practical to skip motor production.<br /> [[User:NT|NT]] 09:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Magnet From Raw Materials ==<br /> <br /> The hardest part of making an electric motor/generator from raw materials will be making a good permanent magnet.<br /> I've found a brief online overview of the history of magnet production and some modern manufacturing techniques.<br /> It includes references to textbooks that presumably have more details.<br /> Site: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Magnet.html<br /> <br /> It's beyond my area of expertise, but perhaps some industrious individual can experiment and expand upon it and include their experience here.<br /> <br /> - [[User:Jeff Bouas|Jeff Bouas]] 19:02, 19 April 2012 (CEST)</div>

Jeff Bouas https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=Talk:Electric_Motor_Generator&diff=59874 2012-04-19T17:01:44Z

<p>Jeff Bouas: /* Magnet From Raw Materials */ new section</p> <hr /> <div>==Cheaper to buy==<br /> Assorted motors can be bought in bulk as scrap items from garbage disposal facilities. In my limited experience most of them work ok. I forget exactly but basically you're looking at around scrap value. One batch of motors should keep a community going a long time.<br /> <br /> Here...<br /> http://www.recycleinme.com/search/selloffers__motors.aspx<br /> <br /> Another possibility is to accept scrap items from households locally. Either way it should be entirely practical to skip motor production.<br /> [[User:NT|NT]] 09:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Magnet From Raw Materials ==<br /> <br /> The hardest part of making an electric motor/generator from raw materials will be making a good permanent magnet.<br /> I've found a brief online overview of the history of magnet production and some modern manufacturing techniques.<br /> It includes references to textbooks that presumably have more details.<br /> Site: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Magnet.html<br /> <br /> It's beyond my area of expertise, but perhaps some industrious individual can experiment and expand upon it and include their experience here.<br /> <br /> - [[User:Jeff Bouas|Jeff Bouas]]</div>

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