It'll all be fine..

 

Got it. When I was employed by the Govt, we used to call them "home projects" good ole boys got the job done.

 

Good luck with that.

 

You can rewire it with correct gage armature field coil wireing. Back in the 60, my father rewound small motors. He had made wood frames to wind the coils. I was about 11 or 12 and use to help him. My guess is a roll of that wire is probably more then a stator.

Even though that wire is coated, my father had a dip tank of clear varnish. He had a old gas kitchen stove he would cure it in.

 

I've already found one pound spools 80-ft lengths for $20. But before I do anything I'm going to talk to some of the techs at work

 

Do what makes you happy, and have fun just ensure you get the same number of windings as the original had.

 

I will thanks... It doesn't really seem that difficult but it's actually more about the challenge..I never did one and always wanted to.. Funny thing is if the one in my current bike last for who knows how long, I might not get the chance to try it..

 

So I unwound the stator this morning.. I had nothing to do cuz I'm always up early... I found that there was a big discrepancy in the amount of windings per post/tree (whatever you want to call them)... Anyways what I did find was the most common windings was 26 per post (8).. 6 posts had 25, 1 post had 28 and 3 posts had 27... By the way I understand this, inequality creates dirty power which can affect your system.. Now keep in mind this is an OEM Harley stator. Other things I found were that in a lot of areas there was hardly any coating on the wire at all.. You can see that in the pictures as well.. I highly doubt these were made in the USA, probably some more China crap.. So anyways it appears that each length per phase was 40 ft.. I just got to make sure I get the right size wire and temperature range. You can also see in another picture where there was huge gaps in the windings.. I'm sure that this would also affect the cleanliness of the voltage.. I don't see any reason why I can't do a better job than what was purchased.. we'll see... I have a couple cycle electric stators, I just might unwind those to see what kind of quality difference there really is.. Who knows we'll see..

Question: Is it better to have an even number or odd number of windings per post? Keep in mind I will make sure that all posts are equally wound..



This poorly insulated spot was very common throughout the windings..


I know it's hard to speculate but with all this info, I wonder how long this stator would have lasted... And is this common.. I would've expected a little more consistency .

 

Monday morning in China is probably little different then here. Those China boys' heads were pounding as they tried to keep up count. That makes AC. The regulator cleans it up into one way DC and regulates final voltage depending on battery voltage. No biggie.

 

I've seen videos of people rewinding stators. If you engage in such an event post the pictures. I think it's quite doable.