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Making a flywheel

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HS93:
Well John all I can say about the previous post is the sooner I can't wait to get a rotary table so i can start butchering metal to try some of your ideas, I find that even if I dont make the same things as are being made on hear I learn about what cutters people are using to get the finnish they get and different ways of doing things, being new to some of this I am learning quicker than I have in the last 20 years, so the more the better , it all helps even if it's just how to hold things.

Peter

Stilldrillin:

--- Quote from: bogstandard on March 25, 2009, 07:05:56 AM ---David,


--- Quote ---Looking at those flywheel pics, I feel very inadequate, again!
--- End quote ---

No offence intended at all, but I really do hate comments like this. It is not your inadequacy at all, but your lacking in the confidence to try something new that holds you back.

Please stop putting yourselves down because of the success of others.

--- End quote ---

Sorry, you misunderstood me John.  :scratch:

I used to work magic with "my" Takisawa machining centre & Nikken indexing head...... I don`t have either, now.


My attempt at tongue in cheek.....  ::)

Not really self deprecation...... Or hero worship......    :thumbup:

David.

bogstandard:
Sorry about flying off the handle David, but I really do feel saddened, when I know people are giving up without trying, maybe not in your case, but certainly in other posts I have read.

It is usually that first step that they need to make to get them over the 'I can't do that' hump. Once they do try, and succeed, or don't fail as badly as they thought they would, they then realise everything isn't so difficult after all, and then they start to soar.

You can't stand behind people  :poke: , you can only give them verbal encouragement and hope they will take that first difficult step themselves.

John

SPiN Racing:
Well if it helps any....

Reading how to make flywheels has been enlightening.  The use of a rotary table makes a lot more practical sense.

I had always wanted to get a rotary table in the 12-18" size as it would be functional for me with race car things. Such as making and or drilling brake rotors etc. (The race shop has some huge rotart table and they make 14" aluminum scalloped brake rotors for a formula car they have)

Seeing what you are doing with it.. as well as what I have seen with indexing options... there are a lot of things that can be done.

Honestly.. for me.... although beautiful... a straight spoke simple flywheel doesnt do much for my mind.  BUT.... the other flywheels you did are awesome. The variety of slots and or curves, and drilled holes adds a lot of variety to what is possible.

Goood info for me at least.  :thumbup:

Can I make those yet? Not YET... but it gives me a goal  :ddb:

OgreOwner:
Many thanks for this thread.  If all would go to the trouble of the pics and 1000 words to go with it that this author did, we would all be greatly benefitted.  Some of us come into machining without the benefit of years of apprentiship and with no idea what we are doing.  A pictorial essay such as this can add years of experience to a novice like myself.  I am grateful to have "picked your brain" by reading your post.  Perhaps you could be arm twisted into doing a few other "how tos" for the benefit of the novices out here.  You did an excellent job with this one.

Karl

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