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Re: (ET) Magnets gone bad....



Well, it's normally not too hard to do, but this one with 4 breaks now is a test to my abilities.

Checked it this evening. One of the fragments is in the shell properly, the other three had been moved around too much during the glue setting time but did serve to set the gauge. So I took them out, cleaned them up on the wire wheel, then glued together two of the parts in a vice this evening. Tomorrow I'll get back in there and glue down the center part to the left side part using the right side part as a gauge. Then after another day I'll try gluing in the right side.

We'll see if it (a) works and (b) holds, but this is good refresher practice before I set the broken fragment back into the good motor.

C

(So far none of the magnets I have glued back in have had problems, but they have only been used for 3-4 seasons tops so far)


On 9/26/2022 9:40 PM, David Roden wrote:
Nothing worse than good magnets gone bad, except maybe a good dog gone bad.
Not that I would know. :-\

That's the reason that I chickened out and had all three New Idea R36
motors rebuilt by a local auto electric shop, rather than doing it myself.
I figured that if someone was going to break a magnet, and have to try to
glue it back together and/or into the shell, better they than me.  They're
fairly likely to have the appropriate tools, jigs, and expertise.  I
definitely don't.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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