Onoff
In the land of the unfinished project I am King!
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Hello there, thanks for the warm welcome. As requested some progress pics of my home made electric wacker plate. Based on some rough GA's found on the web of commercial petrol & electric ones. Other than the 8mm base plate the rest of the steel is from the "that'll come in handy one day" collection:
8mm thk MS base plate. A couple of 25mm bore plate bearings. I wanted plummer blocks originally but had these:
An old bit of 150mm galv PFC lying about:
Didn't have any thick RSC so slit a bit of the PFC in two to make angles. Added 4No anti-vibration mounts:
Typically the only bit of shaft I had was imperial so turned it down from 1" to circa 24.8mm OD:
A 2" pulley going begging. A form luckily:
The motor I'm using. A 3-phase jobbie being chucked out at work due to a noisy bearing! Bearing now changed. Will be building a simple semi-auto phase converter first and a more complicated triac one later:
You can see where it's going. A couple of curved bits of scrap plate. The 6" Picador pulley in the picture is B form and I've now changed for an A form one. Have also fitted a spare Belle mixer belt:
Slight faux pas as I mounted the motor with M10 bolts and they should have been M8. Now on M8's. The motor sits atop the flat plate rather than raised on studs:
Have started welding. Oh, it's been so long and the word pan splatter comes to mind. Using the cheapo new arc jobbie and getting thru 13A fuses. Will measure the current draw and fit a suitable commando socket etc.
Thanks for looking.
8mm thk MS base plate. A couple of 25mm bore plate bearings. I wanted plummer blocks originally but had these:
An old bit of 150mm galv PFC lying about:
Didn't have any thick RSC so slit a bit of the PFC in two to make angles. Added 4No anti-vibration mounts:
Typically the only bit of shaft I had was imperial so turned it down from 1" to circa 24.8mm OD:
A 2" pulley going begging. A form luckily:
The motor I'm using. A 3-phase jobbie being chucked out at work due to a noisy bearing! Bearing now changed. Will be building a simple semi-auto phase converter first and a more complicated triac one later:
You can see where it's going. A couple of curved bits of scrap plate. The 6" Picador pulley in the picture is B form and I've now changed for an A form one. Have also fitted a spare Belle mixer belt:
Slight faux pas as I mounted the motor with M10 bolts and they should have been M8. Now on M8's. The motor sits atop the flat plate rather than raised on studs:
Have started welding. Oh, it's been so long and the word pan splatter comes to mind. Using the cheapo new arc jobbie and getting thru 13A fuses. Will measure the current draw and fit a suitable commando socket etc.
Thanks for looking.