Talk:Electric Motor Generator

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)