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    What a time waster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechanic688 View Post
    What a time waster.
    Yeah, they take me 20 mins to unwind by hand...

    I unwind the 3 wires at the same time & the wire keeps getting caught at the ends of each winding, so some unwind at that point & some don't. Then I have to unwind by hand individually the caught wires, then off to unwinding 3 wires at a time again.

    I have cut thru the sides of the windings with a grinder, but the plastic gets warm & soft & catches the wire when it gets cold, you end up pulling some plastic off at the same time & the wire looks bad with it on it.

    I tried burning the plastic off to get to the wire, but thats not a time saver either.

    I tried cutting thru the windings with a cold chisle, takes a lot of time & it gets messy with the loose loops flying off everywhere.

    No real simple way to do it, except for unwinding them by hand.

    The motors with a dark purple wire on them are made of Ali wire too. Only the motors with the thickest wire is any good for generating power from the units.

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    It takes me a few hours to do it by unwinding it haha. And I end up getting cuts on my index and middle finger from doing so. Last time I managed to get that cut infected from either dirty stuff that was on the copper from the washing machine or from the spark plugs I was playing with a week later as the cut wasn't heeling.

    So yeah, trying to find a quicker and better way!

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