Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
Seen a video of a guy using charcoal to burn off the varnish. he put the coals in the middle of the stator. But this stator was from a 8,900lb generator
Cut one end of the copper coils off first, after incinerating the coils are easy to remove.

I used a wood chisel bevelled edge down to wards the lamination to cut the copper ends off one end.