[KwartzLab] Making a spoked, wooden wheel

[Punkin3.14]

Also a good idea! At this point, I'm more interested in *having* a wheel, than in necessarily making it myself. I'll check them out.

Thanks, both of you! 

Steph

On 2011-11-15, at 11:24 AM, Rob Adlers wrote:

> See, and here I was thinking you should visit one of the local wagon repair shops. I remember one north of waterloo on a back road to Elmira. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Martin <kpmartin at thinkage.ca>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:17:30 
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> If you really want utilitarian, you could use a bicycle wheel with the tire removed...
> 
> This is not beyond my capabilities, but I don't have a lathe that big, so I would have to improvise using my mill and bandsaw.
> The rim would be pieced together, and a router table would be useful for making finger joints between the segments.
> Given that Kwartzlab has a bandsaw and router table you should (perhaps with help) be able to make this in the lab. The mill is not essential; I would only be using it to cut the belt groove, and that could be done with a rasp as well.
> 
> -Kevin Martin
> the Papertrail Handmade Paper & Book Arts
> New Dundee, Ontario
> www.papertrail.ca
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at kwartzlab.ca [mailto:discuss-bounces at kwartzlab.ca] On Behalf Of Punkin3.14
> 
> I'm a complete novice at woodworking, but I'm working from a very utilitarian model (i.e., non-decorative), and most of the pieces are straightforward to cut. 
> 
> The bit that I am puzzling over is the fly wheel itself. Its 19" inches across, and needs a 1/4" rounded groove along the outer edge, which the drive band fits into. [1]
> 
> Have we any knowledgeable woodworkers who would be available sometime in the next couple months, to help me make such a wheel (assuming this is not an unreasonable project for a novice -- I honestly don't know how advanced this is)?
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