Hi ime new to this forum and Ive just been reading some of the above about dump it sites,ive been trying to put together a turbine project for a couple of years now i thought it was going to be simple when i started"car alternator attach blades charge batteries and off we go"how wrong i was.so rather than keep buying things that don't work Ive gone back to school for a year or so and as Ive only had the Internet for a few months its not been easy.The point Ive eventually got to is if i could have accessed my local tip as a few years ago not only could i have built my turbine i could have had a wind farm of my own for virtually nothing"so much for recycling and saving the environment. Daveb
Hi Dave, I have the good fortune of a great relationship with a metal scrap yard. Every visit I make there I'll spend upwards of 1/2 hour and sometimes a couple of hours scouring the heaps of metal the whole time thinking of the various projects I have on the go and what I need to make them.
A good imagination and a bit of foresight goes a long way towards gathering the "right parts". Keep your chin up and use your best judgement when collecting parts.
If you want I can share some photo's of what parts I have collected and tell you what I was thinking of when I bought them. This wind energy thing is a tinkerer inventors dream. If something good comes of it, all the better. I intend on being able to tell my electricity provider "No thanks, I don't need your power." in a couple of years.
Rome wasn't built in a day Dave. I takes time and effort.
I hope this helps, BW
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. - Albert Einstein
I too got my fibreglass blades and magnets from magnet4less (Applied Magnets). Mine are the new version they just got in this month and the edges and finish on the blades are both perfect. Couldn't be happier. If interested here are their links:
Resources Section - Where to buy stuff from.
Posted - 07/11/2007 : 17:44:00
