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    Questions about Rotors , Stators , and Bare Bright

    A few lingering questions here ;



    Stators are often made of many layers of thinner material fused together into a heavy single piece, can this go in with heavy iron?

    Rotors often have lots of copper inserts running through them, can this go in with electric motors?

    Is bare bright always bare bright, no matter the thickness ? Must it be totally coating free ?


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    Stators are heavy melt. Dont think they will take rotors as motors because they arent motors. And at my yard bare bright is only stripped copper1 wire, not copper2 as when ya strip cords from tvs, vaccume's, ect

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    Rotors at our yard are sold as alum. breakage.Have gotten between18-28$per hundred.

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    Vehicle rotors have copper in them????

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    The rotor is the cylindrical part inside an electric motor.

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    Thanks yall

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    Rotors go with engine blocks at my yard, Bear. They have their own pricing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toula View Post
    The rotor is the cylindrical part inside an electric motor.
    Oooohhhhh....those! I call them armatures. My bad. Sorry!

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    Bear, the strators can go in heavy (prepared) steel if they are still intact.

    The rotors (the ones w/o copper) can either go in prep'd steel or if they have alot of Al can go as aluminum breakage.

    Armatures (the ones with copper) can go with motors.

    I specifically asked at my local yard today.
    If it wasn't for the $ in $crap, it would just be.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
    Oooohhhhh....those! I call them armatures. My bad. Sorry!
    I just double checked this, NZ & foreign words are sometimes dissimilar & I call then armatures too.

    quote{Mechanical
    Rotor: The rotating part of an alternator, generator, dynamo or motor.
    Stator: The stationary part of an alternator, generator, dynamo or motor

    Electrical
    Armature: The power-producing component of an alternator, generator, dynamo or motor. The armature can be on either the rotor or the stator.}quote

    Ha! I was wrong! I always classed the armature as the inside rotating part of a electric motor.

    Armature (electrical engineering) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Rotor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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