I am also interested in experimenting with direction of rotation and furling methods, so when I trashed the blades I made the new set rotate anti clockwise.

I like to keep the blade tips bending away from the tower during sudden furling motions so that meant that I also had to make up new metalwork  and a new tail on the opposite side.  

I had also physically damaged the original stator when things hit it, so a new stator with similar coils was also made.

The magnet rotors using the hard drive mags were reused, as was the tower.

The end result is I have a more robust and lighter genny with similar output to the original.

To this stage I have not been able to determine any significant difference between blades rotating clockwise or anti clockwise.

Does anybody else have any thought on this issue?