[KwartzLab] Making a spoked, wooden wheel

[Robert Gissing]

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1976-05-01/We-Built-A-Spinning-Wheel-for-2-50.aspx
here is an example of a bike wheel acting as flywheel

gus

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Punkin3.14 <punkin at mag3.14159.ca> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Rob
> > --------
> > via my Blackberry
> > http://www.auralplane.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Martin <kpmartin at thinkage.ca>
> > Sender: discuss-bounces at kwartzlab.ca
> > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:17:30
> > To: KwartzLab Public Discussion List<discuss at kwartzlab.ca>
> > Reply-To: KwartzLab Public Discussion List <discuss at kwartzlab.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [KwartzLab] Making a spoked, wooden wheel
> >
> > 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
> >
> > -----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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