Is this nuts? Thinking of building a custom CV stroker clone
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:40 am
So, just wondering how nuts I am... Tell me if this is insane or not.
I'm thinking of building a clone of a CV stroker 18D2. The soft parts are still available. I'm thinking of building a custom neodymium motor, because frankly, finding a similar ferrite motor will be difficult and I don't have a way to magnetize the ferrite rings, so even if I could find them, I could build it but not magnetize it.
I have a machine and fab shop. I can easily machine the pole plates, I should even be able to do the iconic extended front pole with little trouble. It looks like assembling a neodymium motor is within reach of a well equipped shop...
There are many aftermarket frames available, if by some fluke there is nothing that will work with the CV cone dimensions, it's not outside my capability to machine a basket as well...
It would take a significant amount of work, and in the end neo magnets are going to cost as much or more than what a used driver would. I also have no way to test parameters once complete.
So, tell me, an I crazy, or should I go on with this (those two are not mutually exclusive). I don't know what got this idea stuck in my head, but I just can't shake it. If the magnets cost less than $600 I would have started already...
Thanks,
Jason
I'm thinking of building a clone of a CV stroker 18D2. The soft parts are still available. I'm thinking of building a custom neodymium motor, because frankly, finding a similar ferrite motor will be difficult and I don't have a way to magnetize the ferrite rings, so even if I could find them, I could build it but not magnetize it.
I have a machine and fab shop. I can easily machine the pole plates, I should even be able to do the iconic extended front pole with little trouble. It looks like assembling a neodymium motor is within reach of a well equipped shop...
There are many aftermarket frames available, if by some fluke there is nothing that will work with the CV cone dimensions, it's not outside my capability to machine a basket as well...
It would take a significant amount of work, and in the end neo magnets are going to cost as much or more than what a used driver would. I also have no way to test parameters once complete.
So, tell me, an I crazy, or should I go on with this (those two are not mutually exclusive). I don't know what got this idea stuck in my head, but I just can't shake it. If the magnets cost less than $600 I would have started already...
Thanks,
Jason