magnets

well has been a week since my last post... umm... this sorta sounds like i'm confessing :)

k, well i ordered some magnets... i ordered 30 magnets today of this type....

Rare-Earth Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) Disc Magnet Size - Diameter 1.000" (25.40mm) x Thickness 0.063" (1.59mm); Grade N40; Pull Force - 5.39lb/2445g

this should be plenty for my first alternator, with a couple left over for my fridge :) going to head to a junk yard tomorrow at lunch to see what i can get for a front wheel assembly. i'm hoping to pay at most ~$30 for this. now i realize that this isn't likely if i were buying parts that could be used on a working vehicle... but i'm guessing there will be a car there that is too busted up to be worth reusing the parts. this is my hope anyway... the project i link to in a previous post used a volvo assembly, but i don't think i'll need to go this classy *-)

i have also realized that i'm going to need to make this thing a lot sturdier than i was intending. so i'm going to have to learn to weld... not that big a deal, but is another step in the stairway to wind-power generation...