Rewinding a stator should not be rocket-science...
For the most part, rewinding a stator should simply be a matter of the correct resistance of wire in each coil, and the coils wired together and wound (clockwise / counter-clockwise) correctly so that the your alternator is not producing alternating positive/negative peaks.
As you unwound the old stator, could it be possible to quantify the original winding by counting or weighing the removed coils, and then replacing with same? If the factory stator is wound, then formed and glued, it won't unwind nicely to count turns, and weighing it would need to account for the glue.
With automotive alternators, they use a machine to wind the coils, and then another machine presses, forms, and glues/molds together the coils with some sort of plastic so they never come apart. Remanufacturing that at home is almost impossible, given the forming and molding that needs to be done with a high degree of precision. By your pictures, the XT600 stator does not use any fancy coil-forming.
I've never looked at my XT600 stator, I hope I never have to, but in the event that I do a home rewind will be preferable to a $500 cdn outlay.
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