the armature windings 10 are housed in the lower portion of the stator slots 105 various filler strips 130 and ripple springs 135 may be installed above the armature windings a dovetail wedge 120 is inserted into dovetail groove 115 and a slide 125 is subsequently driven under the wedge 120 using tool 200 vent slot plate 340 see fig3 has a pair of downwardly extending projections 342 the projections 342 extend into the vent gaps 410 and leverage the strength of the core to lock the tool in place during operation fig3 illustrates a vent slot plate having two projections but one or three or more projections could also be employed by lock it is to be understood that a solid point of contact is made to resist the drive force exerted while driving stator slides 125 under stator wedges 120 vent slot plate 340 is fastened to end frame cap 345 with removable fasteners such as screws or bolts the vent slot plate 340 is designed to be removed an exchanged with differently sized or dimensioned vent slot plates by enabling the vent slot plate to be interchanged a wide variety of generators can be accommodated and serviced with tool 200 the main interchangeable.