Flywheel roadtest

[gfish]

We took the Kalamazoo out for a roadtest yesterday, to see how the new flywheel handled.

(I'm also wearing my new hat, which I'm terribly fond of.)

Comments

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

I don't recognise that song, but it sounds a very great deal like early Genesis.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Correct in one! That is The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Excellent song from an excellent album.

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

What a glorious collection of wheels and cogs!

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

That is marvelous!

I only regret that I wasn't present wearing my wescott to cheer you on.

[keystricken.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

A grand device. With but one flaw. The wood parts desperately need a coat of British racing green paint.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.
How'd you fabricate the notched sector?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

With an angle grinder, actually. First cut the outer curve following a template I designed in Inkscape. Then I mounted two fresh cutoff disks in the grinder for extra width, and measuredd that on a test piece. With that I got the angular spacing needed, and made another template with both the radials and an inner circumference to mark the depth. I transferred the marks with a punch and scribe, and then just carefully ground in with the grinder following the guides. A bit of cleaning up with a file and it was done. I'm quite happy with that mechanism, the Kalamazoo desperately needed a lever with a release handle on it. :)