Day 3 - Disaster
This did not work out, I do not think I used enough hardener, the fiberglass is still sticky and there is a problem with the mould, the lid did not close properly. What I do not understand is that in the instructions, the spacer in the coil winder is 13 mm, the mould is also suppose to be 13 mm, surly you should have at least a millimeter gap of some sort, to allow for the thickness of the fiberglass on either side of the stator face, etc...? The coils were higher than the edge of the mould, so even though I screwed the lid down with plenty of screws, it did not compress down hard enough, it actually pulled to the one side....
I added some more hardener and fiberglass and screwed the lid down again, trying to equalize the thickness of the stator... I'll see tonight if it was a success..
Lessons learned..
1) Use the amount of hardener specified on the product, not the amount specified in the instructions..
2) If something does not make sense, follow what you think should be correct, I should have increase the mould thickness with at least 1mm...
Hopefully it will come out ok.. If not, I'll have to order more wire and redo the coils and mould... Expensive mistake!!