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Steel flywheel
Posted: August 10th, 2008, 10:56 am
by Brooky
Hi all,
Im in the process of making a steel flywheel, now Guy, in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=570 you say not to go any thinner than 10-12mm on the cast flywheels
Any ideas on how thin i can take a steel flywheel??
Thanks Tom
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:19 am
by pastaroni34
Thats a very complicated question. Depends on what material, what clutch, particularly if your design has stress risers.. how thick of a ring gear you're going to use.. if you could provide some of that information it would be helpful!
-Jason Miller
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 12:25 pm
by Brooky
Clutch is a non sprung 180mm paddle clutch.
Material of flywheel, steel, not sure of grade tho
Ring gear will be the standard one off the old flywheel, at a guess id say 10mm thick.
Thinnest part on the old flywheel is 8.5mm, thats where it bolts on to the crank
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 5:15 pm
by Guy Croft
This may help some,
GC
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 8:15 pm
by Brooky
thank you Guy,
helps a lot, hopefully I'll get all the turning finished next weekend, that's if my back is up to it, 2 days bent over my lathe wasn't a good idea..
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 9:46 pm
by Brooky
well here it is now the turning is finished
now the fun begins with working out/machining the crank mounting holes. hopefully the pressure plate mounting holes should be abit easier
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: September 6th, 2008, 12:42 am
by pastaroni34
Figuring out the bolt pattern could be a bear. If you want to do it on your own, then don't read any further. If you like to do things the easy way:
Guy, I hope you don't mind me posting a link. Its to my website, I didn't want to eat up your bandwidth with a 2mb jpg or pdf.
LINKS STRICTLY WITH MY PERMISSION PLEASE RE-READ SITE PROTOCOLS - GC - I HAVE UPLOADED THE KEY INFO VERY SIMPLY AS A GIF USING MS PAINT.
Re: Steel flywheel
Posted: September 6th, 2008, 7:06 pm
by Brooky
Thanks alot for the help pastaroni34.
Will have to get the rotary table back out (only just put it away)
Thanks again. Tom