I will keep an eye open to your comments.

Kind regards,

Thanks for your comments. Any info you can get me will be greatly appreciated. I just want to compare your conversion to my "to be" conversion. I plan to use the lowes 3/8" x 7/8" x 1 7/8 magnets, this should match the stator curve much better. The rotor will be solid steel and I plan to mill some flats on it with my lathe. I might also strap a bronze or stainless sheet around them for containment and protection.

I took this motor apart and wrote down the dimension, but last night I was looking for the piece of paper were I wrote it down and guess what...I couldn't find it LOL.

I do remember that the armature diameter was about 4.5" and the stator stack length was also around 4.5", maybe a little longer; 36 slots.

The motor frame is about 9-10" in diameter as well. Unfortunately it doesn't have a nameplate but due to the size a wild guesstimation is that it's probably 2-3 HP, 3PH, 220/380 volts.

I know most will tell me it's a waste of time to use ceramic magnets, but believe me; I really can't spend on neos, maybe sometime in the future I can upgrade.

I just bought a new house and still have to spend more cash on furniture (but that won't stop me!!!)

Ceramics shouldn't be underestimated; they have a much lower gauss rating but with a large surface area you still get a good amount of total magnetic flux which is what really matters.

I'm not after huge amounts of power and I don't mind the weight of the motor for the low output I will get.

Considering your motor ran the worm drive Milwaukee saw, (I have a similar Skill Pro), it must have made some decent power cause those saws are massive.

Anyway, I don't want to bore you any longer. If you've still got those pics somewhere please post them. I'll check the board during the week for any updates.

Thanks,