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I have found a 2mm slab of carbon fiber on Amazon for pretty cheap so I am going to order new diodes and try to fab the ring out of the carbon fiber. I have read some white papers about carbon fiber becoming conductive in high magnetic fields with high voltage but I have seen it used in electric...

That is a handy drawing! Thank you!

And just for some history before everything went to hell, I would run this once a month and put my whole house load on it every other month. It did get hit by lighting (not running) but obviously that was not the only thing that happened. Mine also looks like loose bolts causes a chain reaction...

Sooooooooo,......... Looky, Looky, Looky what I found with the help of Kurt Klopp and the TM tests. It appears at first glance that my windings are ok, but nicked the paint for sure. I will have to repair the wires that come out to the diode assembly as two of them got ripped.

I have a two ton hoist and mine is mounted the same way, on a trailer, my engine hoist will go right in there over the generator housing, I tried it today, but hopefully I don't need to pull it all the way. Did you test the windings to see if they are damaged? Or are they obviously cut?

I know they make thread lock up to 600 degrees, I am not sure it would get that hot in that area unless the bearing failed. I will be posting my tragic findings at the end :-(

There is a video on Youtube of a guy pulling the diode plate and the generator out and having the generator rebuilt and fixing the diode plate himself. I image it can be rebuilt fairly simply if you fabricate the mounting plate.