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CraziestOzzy

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Joined: 11/07/2008
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Posted: 09:24am 09 Mar 2009

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By some miracle, got myself two series 60 smart drives salvaged from F&P washing machines in the space of one week. Been searching at least a year for at least one

Anyways, crazy idea again...

Two F&P motors attached either end of unmodified washing machine shaft. One shaft is double male ended and the other shaft is double female ended. Rotors are missing on the photo but fit nicely.
The plastic/aluminium bearing housing is slightly larger than the usual DIY mods, I have extended the outer cut circumference for added strength and gives me something decent I can attach later to a base.
Stress on the shaft is balanced between all four bearings. Weakest point is where the thread of the two shafts join.

While I am tossing this idea inside my brain, anyone got links etc to other dual/triple motor designs using this F&P motor with no metal machining or making of new shaft etc required? Seen some nice photos inside this website, but nothing to wet my appetite and a web search does not amount to much in the "unmodified" dual (or more) stator design. F&P Murray's Diary does touch a little on the subject.
Cheers

Edited by CraziestOzzy 2009-03-10

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CraziestOzzy

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Joined: 11/07/2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 135

Posted: 11:22pm 21 Mar 2009

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Well, the local rubbish dump is coming in handy for my "green machine"...my work stand is an old office chair on wheels. My flame retardant plastic wiring "junction box" sits on top of the setup. Yet to hook up the wires, as I only created this mounting solution yesterday.
I had sawn off the shaft, leaving just the sprog thing hanging as a make-shift bolt holding the stator on - I bent the shaft by accident when I was originally "pulling" the motor out of the F&P washing machine with a ten kilo hammer...now I know better and the motor and shaft are easier to take out than I thought when I attacked my second washing machine...without the sledge hammer. Dumb bugger like me had to research the web to see how to tackle this simple job.
I aim to use something else to replace the remaining shaft holding the stator together later. I hope to drive a motor that will spin the genny for trials inside my office. I have my eyes on a torque motor neatly stashed and hidden in a pile of junk at the local dump.

This shows my electronic work in progress...an organised mess of transformers, switches, electrolytic capacitors, PCB boards with handy setups butchered from various stuff and maybe some skeletons of dead mice. Top right of photo is the case that has in place my IGBT's, toroid transformer, phase control thyristors filters and other protection stuff... they are layed out inside the case but not yet connected as I am still constructing my SPICE simulation for the setup...I don't want to be frying eggs and bacon just yet

Edited by CraziestOzzy 2009-03-23

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