I have been removing these magnets from the old microwave ovens.

They are ceramic and very strong, with the alignment through the thickness. Speaker magnets are similar. This next picture is of a disassembled automotive alternator rotor with the coil removed.

I have machined the center in order to hold the magnets.

The center is accurate to the magnet. This allows the unit to retain the true center and be balanced well.

I used three similar magnets to fill the space between the end plates.
The last picture shows the assembled rotor

The rotor was placed back into the alternator. There is zero cogging in this unit. The first test at 1900 rpm produced 6.8 volts ac per phase at 2 amps. The total time to do this conversion was under three hours.
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