Making a flywheel

[sbmathias]

Nicely done. When will you finish up the thread by showing how to make one of the curved spoke wheels in the introductory photograph? I'd really like to do one of those on my manual mill.

[bogstandard]

Cedge (Steve) has already done that on another site. Maybe he could root it out for us and give us the link.

Not as easy as you think, as it does require jigging to be made.


Bogs

[cedge]

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=6625.0  =JackB's method

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=3169.0  = Cedge's madness

Curved spokes take a bit of planning and some small amount of preparation, but the actual cutting is really pretty straight forward, if a bit nerve wracking. It's probably not something for a rank beginner to take on but a fairly skilled intermediate shouldn't have too much trouble. I managed it.....LOL

If you're really serious about learning how to do them right, I'd recommend the book "Shop Wisdom of Philip Duclos" by Philip Duclos, which is available from Village Press. He has a great step by step article in there, not to mention several other engine projects. It's one of two books containing Philip's collection of projects and I'd freely and highly recommend both to anyone in the model engine building hobby. No affiliation with either the author, now deceased, nor Village press.... but definitely one very happy customer and fan of both.

Steve