Used the 200 watt soldering iron to remove the rectifier wires. Definitely needed the bigger heat to do this. The brush wires came unsoldered with my smaller iron.

Unsoldering the rectifier is difficult as there are ears bent over the wires. So just heating the solder will not release the wires, you need to bend back the ears as well - takes a bit of struggle.

Removed the rear bearing with the bearing splitter and re-installed with hammer and proper size drift, which was a deep socket.

Having looked at many videos on alternator rebuilds, this alternator is one of the more difficult because of the way it is soldered together.

Moving on to re-assembly soon.