Recent content by SailplaneDriver

Thanks Brian. I was wondering what people did to keep the center from slipping. I was considering a shrink fit but wasn't confident it would have sufficient holding power for the cyclical loads.

I did some calcs on the bronze ring vs. the design flywheel. The moment of inertia of the bronze ring will be about 4 times that of the original design. That sounds a bit on the high side. I think I'll dig around some more and see if I can scrounge up something else. Maybe a trip to WalMart and...

I'm getting ready to start on a Webster and I hope to tap into the experience of others who have built one and have much more experience that I do. I don't have any 3.75" steel or cast iron laying around for the flywheel but I do have a beautiful bronze ring 4.75"OD, 3"ID, .866 thick. It's a...

My answer is correct. Here is the formula from Alternating Current Machines by Puchstein, Lloyd and Conrad first published in 1936. This is the 1954 edition. The output frequency is inversly proportional to the number of poles in a generator or alternator. Same for the RPM. Now think of it...

Output frequency will be Number of Magnetic poles times RPM divided by 120. For a 16 pole machine running at 1000 RPM you will get 133 Hertz output.

Out by Redmond, WA for me. We should have a PNW get together - well, when things calm down.

When I was working, an expert was anyone wearing a tie from 100 miles or more away.

I know what you mean. I'm blessed with a very deep 3 car garage. You could always buy a new home (just kidding). Just getting my mill off the pallet was a real exercise let alone moving it into the corner. There is no way I would try and move that thing up or down stairs.

I sold my Horror Freight mini mill and purchased a PM-835S and haven't looked back. It was the smallest knee mill I found and It is way larger than I really need; but it also is much more robust allowing me to be more precise. At 1500 lbs (680 kg) it is quite heavy and difficult to move. All...

I had lost the locking screw on an iGaging digital caliper. I contacted them and purchased a replacement without any problem but that was roughly 5 years ago.

I had similar problems with one axis on my old mini-mill, since sold. I converted the mill to a DRO using Yuri's Touch DRO and stopped having problems leading me to believe that the issue was the electronics and not the scale. I again had the problem with the scale I added to the mini-lathe...

Here is a shrink fit calculator. Plug in the data and it will tell you more than you want to know including required pressure to fit the parts for a given temperature differential. https://amesweb.info/press-fit/interference-fit-calculator.aspx

Where are you located? Tacoma Screw covers most of the northwest and they have had pretty muchy anything I have ever needed.

Aliexpress. Look for post #46 in this thread. Everything will fit but it is tight. I used industrial double stick tape to hole the boards to the bottom of the case. The display will center in the existing cutout if you modify the two top holes in the board to match the position of the screws...

As promised, here are pictures of the finished product after I got the electronics sorted. It now works well. All the electronics in the case with the keyboard and display.