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It's beyond my area of expertise, but perhaps some industrious individual can experiment and expand upon it and include their experience here.
It's beyond my area of expertise, but perhaps some industrious individual can experiment and expand upon it and include their experience here.


- [[User:Jeff Bouas|Jeff Bouas]]
- [[User:Jeff Bouas|Jeff Bouas]] 19:02, 19 April 2012 (CEST)

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Cheaper to buy

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.

Here... http://www.recycleinme.com/search/selloffers__motors.aspx

Another possibility is to accept scrap items from households locally. Either way it should be entirely practical to skip motor production. NT 09:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Magnet From Raw Materials

The hardest part of making an electric motor/generator from raw materials will be making a good permanent magnet. I've found a brief online overview of the history of magnet production and some modern manufacturing techniques. It includes references to textbooks that presumably have more details. Site: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Magnet.html

It's beyond my area of expertise, but perhaps some industrious individual can experiment and expand upon it and include their experience here.

- Jeff Bouas 19:02, 19 April 2012 (CEST)