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Wombat
 Post subject: Flywheel drive straps
PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:50 pm 
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How much can you build these up safely with washers? I have to fill about a third of and inch (0.304") to get them level

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Wombat wrote:
How much can you build these up safely with washers? I have to fill about a third of and inch (0.304") to get them level


as much as it takes to get em flat....should be built up with weld though :D

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Noooooooooooooooo...!!!!!!!!!!!
Make 3 new thick spacers on a lathe...... do it properly.
Hole should be 3/8" diameter so they fit snug on the bolts.

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9YaTaH wrote:
as much as it takes to get em flat....should be built up with weld though :D


Welding a cast iron flywheel :shock: if or when it lets go it'll be spinning at thousands of rpm right in between your legs :shock:
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albino235 wrote:
9YaTaH wrote:
as much as it takes to get em flat....should be built up with weld though :D


Welding a cast iron flywheel :shock: if or when it lets go it'll be spinning at thousands of rpm right in between your legs :shock:


Yeah...I must have had a brain fart and was thinking about steel flywheels :roll:

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