This DIY design from Instructables user Moose Gueydan is mostly built from dimensional lumber and plywood. The flywheel is a sandwich of bricks glued between plywood circles with construction adhesive. It’s connected to the headwheel by an arrangement of common galvanized pipe and fittings, and the whole thing spins on a pair of $15 bearings from The Big Bearing Store (top, bottom).
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as usual if anybody wants a full sized *8×10) set of plans, just email me or contact me on facebook and I’ll email them to you. I also have plans for a wedging table and a lot of other stuff on instuctables…
- Moose
Great to hear from you, Moose! Thanks for sharing these plans with the world.
Just out of curiousity, if you’re building a manual wheel, why would you not build a treadle wheel?
a treadle wheel requires metal work, and closer tolerances- contact Simon Leach for plans or complete wheels in his grandfathers (Benard Leach) style. this unit was built to be cheap, easy to build and transportable (unbolt the flywheel and roll it away, the frame weights 30 lbs and will fit through a standard door. not to mention the parts are easily avalable, and everything except the bearings are hardware store parts
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