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    Smile Tip for removing copper from a electric motor stator.

    Just thought I would pass this along. I bought a fence plyer/hammer and tried using it to remove the copper from stators . Actually it worked pretty good. After I cut the copper on one end with a band saw I put the curved wedge end of the fence hammer in the small openings in the copper wire and hit the flat surface with another hammer.








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    Be very careful hitting one hammer with another. Hammer heads are hardened steel. Materials designed to be hammered (ie: nails) are soft. This is evidenced by "mushrooming" or bending. When two hardened surfaces are struck forcefully, there will be chipping and flying steel (sometimes into the eye).
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    Thanks for the tip Mick. I do wear a face shield whenever I am scraping.

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    Well i can share what we do to get the copper out,To start we take the copper houseing and cut the first half of the exposed copper off useing a band sawTip cut the side off that does not have the wire inserted in it, cut the most uniform side.Then we place the housing in a vise,tip we spray the copper winding with WD or a degreaser,leaveing the wide wineding on form the cut stage now gives you some more leverage,useing a seal puller sold in sears and napa the remaning copper can be pulled out pretty easialy.

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