FOUR WINDS INSPIRATION CENTRE FEBRUARY 2003 COURSE PICTURES

sorry about the quality of some of these pictures - the light was very poor at times.
 

metalwork  blades castings   assembly small machine

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We enjoyed the weather and the sculptures in the yard.  It was alo a good place for blackboard sessions.



Drilling out the magnets disks
We centred each disk carefully by rotating it past a stationary object before drilling through the holes in the hub flange into the disk.

The alternator mounting bracket being fitted to the yaw bearing

setting the correct offset


stator mounting lugs
tail boom (oops john should have eye protection on)

Neil cutting our the blade taper on a bands
Fitting the back disk to the blades
Drilling clearance holes through the blades
Cutting out the blade root wedges

Cutting very accurate circles with a router

The magnet-positioning jig 












Using the jacking screws to lower the front rotor into place gently
Testing the output from the alternator

There was no wind when we erected the machine unfortunately.
NEXT COURSE IN EDINBURGH IS
15th-20th March 2004
£300.00 per place. Six day course
to book a place - e mail (click here)
or Telephone/Fax:
0131~332~2229

We did some work on a smaller wind turbine using a single magnet disk and casting a stator on the end of the tubular shaft.

The coils for the small machine