The fact it spun for so long with one push is a testament to your engineering ability, to accurate measuring and careful thought. You'd say it was luck but many of us would disagree. What a wonderful contraption!
I'm a woodworker and a land surveyor. I have a passion for geometry and precision manual work. When you got those bolts through 3 steel plates, 6 inches of wood and 3 more steel plates by banging with a hammer, you had me hooked. Subscribed.
Whatever device this is going to be connected to has to be very safe, once that's spinning these no stopping it in a rush lol and if it ever falls off the axle you will have to collect it from the USA
Very nice engineering, perfect balance as well. I have built and fitted 5 water wheels over the last 20 years not including one's I have restored. normally different designs from your one and axle drive either steel or timber bearings (greenheart). When we balance or even up the outside of the wheel I have used a big router fixed down and the wheel turned slowly. I have been watching your channel and have really enjoyed them. Your railway brought a good few smiles. Note: I also am involved in narrow gauge (30")as the engineer (Tweeddale Heritage Railway) I look forward to the next videos
I have that exact same circular saw, and it is unstoppable. I got it for parts to repair my dad's saw. It had been sitting on top a junk pile in the rain for six months. My dad looked at it and told me to try plugging it in. Fired right up, and I've been using it for ten years now.
I could never be bored with this. Your accent and "good-natured" commentary is a breath of fresh air. I'd love to be with you making this stuff. Cheers and good health - - -Rick from New Zealand.
I think the coolest part about this project is the fact you can even up the outside just by rotating the wheel with a planer/sander mounted at a spot to just shave off any access material along the outside!! This thing is turning out so cool!
@@chieltl depends how fast its going to be spinning I guess. If its spinning with any sort of speed, it will want to be somewhere near balanced. Depending how far out it is, this could be achieved either by drilling small holes in it or adding screws
About planning the outside- I think the preferred method would be to mark the preferred diameter on the boutf sides while spinning and then plane the excess to the lines non turning, ican be hard to keep the planner tool still while rotating and there are definitely a risk for humps to be magnified. Also keep in mind that the grain orientation on the pecies will wary ,thus resulting in ship out and deep cutting when you go against the grain. There for you may have to plane from different directions. When the weel is true round you can sand it with angel grinder sanding block or belt sander. This is for surface Finnish doe, rounding up with sand paper based Method will be very time consuming proces.
I sat and watched the whole thing with a cup of tea. It was very soothing somehow. I love what you've built, and really appreciate your joy in the use of high and low tech to find a frugal solution.
Thank you for spinning the wheel & letting it stop in real time. It really shows the power of momentum. I'm guessing you will true up the wheel similar to how Matthias Wandel cleaned up & balanced his large wooden bandsaw.
The design and manufacture of this great wheel helps me see how our predecessors were able, with perhaps simple tools, to make the huge water wheels that drove grain mills all over the U.S., a craft I'm sure they learned from you engineering geniuses across the pond. Thanks for the unintended history lesson.
That is one serious piece of engineering I think a lot of people don’t release the amount of work it takes just to get it to this stage looking forward to next week now
Spin the wheel, mark the bottom then spin again. See if it lands in the same place. After you balance it, mark evenly spaced sections with numbers. Place your bets!
@@drekfletch yup. you can track it by watching the wheels speed. it'll slow down the most when the heavy part is heading to the top and speed up once it's passed the top most point. like you said it seems the heavy end is opposite those clamps.
*@Way Out West - Workshop Stuff* 23:07 Balancing, you can use the fact-ish that the heaviest part of the wheel probably stops at the lowest part of the wheel (at least for larger un-balances). Then you can either add a small weight to the top of the wheel, or shave off some material on the bottom of the wheel. Note that it is NOT GUARANTEED that the heaviest part stops at the lowest point, it can be a little before or after that point, especially when the wheel is nearly balanced, so check carefully first.
As fascinating as always. When smoothing out the outside, just think of it like a wood lathe and an electric sander to make the surface flat and circular. Look forward to the next video (with bells on).
This is about the phyical dimension of a whole-log chipper I saw once in a pulp mill, (back when such a thing was allowed). It was steel, weighed 12 tons and rotated at 1000 rpm. It would chip a 8 ft.x12" log in about one second. Awesome
Now you will have to take it all apart to stain and oil the woodwork and to undercoat and gloss paint the steel work. I would recommend painting the steel work on the right hand side of the wheel emerald green with gold coach lines and on the left hand side signal red with silver coach lines. Yes, there is some method in my madness! Green paint to represent "Starboard" or the right hand side of the wheel and Red paint to represent "Port" or the left hand side of the wheel. That way if you continue to use the wheel as a power take off for pulleys & belts, chains & sprockets, etc. having painted items to match the driven implement will mean that everything is being driven off the desired section of shaft and rotating in the correct direction.
That's a beautiful thing. Back in the day I was involved in a contemporary art project that used a 5 ton flywheel powered up by a motorcycle minus the rear fender. We made a triangular affair that held the rear of the motorcycle off the floor via the axle and when flipped towards the flywheel pressed the rear wheel of the motorcycle against the flywheel. The motorcycle went through the gears and got the flywheel going at a tremendous pace - I can't remember the actual RPMs''s but it was pretty fast. Once up to speed the motorcycle was pushed forward away from the flywheel. The flywheel was cast in two halves and one half was 5# heavier than the other. It rotated so fast that at speed it made the frame of the flywheel hop due to the uneven weight,. We had to learn to restrict the speed so as not to destroy the gallery floor. The thing spun for hours. It was as awesome as it was scary. I looked it up, it was 3 tons. But still...
Bravo! I have made longer drills by machining a cylinder on the drill, then a length of rod, drill a matching hole in that & add a smaller perpendicular hole to let the gases out. I have always brazed them to reduce the chance of distortion with welding.
Brilliant! Massive. That flywheel is so big, that I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was capable of changing The Earth's rotational speed. I anticipate that the nights will grow shorter and the days longer Real Soon Now! Cheers, Chris
Fantastic, Tim. That spinning Wheel of Fortune had me hypnotised. An amazing piece of engineering and almost perfectly balanced. Well done. Its a credit to your skills.
Very nicely done sir! It took a bunch of math to get that right. I look forward to the time when it's completed. It will be very excited to see it being used to work. Thank you for sharing this with us. Best regards, Bob from Virginia USA
I can see an American UA-cam channel building this only to go up a mountain and roll it down to see how far it'll go or if it can slice a car in half. Good on you for finding a practical use. Written and edited and the wheel is still turning.👍🏻
Congratulations - really enjoyed the whole project and how you implemented. It is good that you have a free running assembly which will help with the balancing procedure. If I could make a suggestion. It would be to do the initial balancing by ‘adding weight’ rather than removing it, to enable you to calculate accurately any removal - otherwise you end up chasing your tail. In fact the add weight method can be the final method too.
My guess is that once the rim is smoothed it will be close enough to balanced, as all the other components are so accurately cut and assembled. Thinking about big flywheels on beam engines, they don't need to turn particularly quickly, just enough to provide the required momentum. Splendid work!
One or two more pairs of vice grips Tim! Nice work boys. I have my idea on rounding the outside perfectly with the axle. 2 arms, one each side, from the axle out to the edge. A cross plate from arm to arm for holding a wood lathe tool and a couple legs to the floor. All tempory but youll get a perfectly round wheel. I think someone just spinning it by hand would be enough power for cutting the edge down round. Cheers 🇨🇦
My suggestion is only to round off the wood only. To have the wheel perfectly round before you move forward with the test of the build. Making something round that big is not easy by hand. Love your passion and work.
It looks wheely good. Love seeing how your plans come together. Wonderful engineering. It's joyful to keep coming back to see how you're progressing with each project.
Very well done! I’m very impressed with that wheel! That takes a lot of skill to make something like that. It reminds me of something from the 1800’s. This wheel and that fantastic rail engine are very impressive builds. Well done sir!
The more I see of this build, the more I get the idea that this whole charcoal thing is just an elaborate plan to have a good excuse to build all these marvellous machines.
1:22 "help it keep going, whatever i ask it to do"...no problem Tim, it will keep going even if you dont ask it to. i just fear for the neighbouring village.
You let go of the wheel at about 16:15 and the thing came to a fairly well fought resting time of nearly 23:15. The slight off-balance gave it one more shove around before it finally came to a stop. That's a SOLID 7 minutes, with a slightly noticeable slow in speed at about 5 minutes in. That thing will have some good heft to it once it's done!
When the wheel is rotating, it sounds like there are some screws not quite tight enough, the squeaking indicates that there is some movement in a screw joint while the wheel tries to deform under it's own weight.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 after tightening everything you can repeat the test, it will probably rotate much longer if the deforming friction is eliminated
Got a sense of how powerful this wheel will be when you placed the board in the spokes to keep it from rotating and even though it was only one station when the wheel weight made it fall back a bit I could hear that board crack.
The fact it spun for so long with one push is a testament to your engineering ability, to accurate measuring and careful thought. You'd say it was luck but many of us would disagree. What a wonderful contraption!
And strategically-placed clamping pliers for balance.
I'm a woodworker and a land surveyor. I have a passion for geometry and precision manual work. When you got those bolts through 3 steel plates, 6 inches of wood and 3 more steel plates by banging with a hammer, you had me hooked. Subscribed.
Thanks, Hugo. Welcome aboard : - )
I never would've thought that the wheel would turn for so long!
Love seeing Tim having his own Industrial Revolution.
I like how there's just 5 minutes of the wheel spinning.
same hahahaha
Christmas lights and spinning like watching a fire crackling
I love that you are single handedly restarting the Industrial Revolution!
Whatever device this is going to be connected to has to be very safe, once that's spinning these no stopping it in a rush lol and if it ever falls off the axle you will have to collect it from the USA
Very nice engineering, perfect balance as well. I have built and fitted 5 water wheels over the last 20 years
not including one's I have restored. normally different designs from your one and axle drive either steel or timber bearings (greenheart). When we balance or even up the outside of the wheel I have used a big router fixed down and the wheel turned slowly. I have been watching your channel and have really enjoyed
them. Your railway brought a good few smiles. Note: I also am involved in narrow gauge (30")as the engineer (Tweeddale Heritage Railway) I look forward to the next videos
Thanks, Peter. Pleaselet me know if I'm doing things wrong - I've zero experience and my knowledge always arrives after the event : - )
You take home shop projects to a new level. Current metal prices put that wheel worth $$$$. I’m glad I’m subscribed to your channel.
I have that exact same circular saw, and it is unstoppable. I got it for parts to repair my dad's saw. It had been sitting on top a junk pile in the rain for six months.
My dad looked at it and told me to try plugging it in. Fired right up, and I've been using it for ten years now.
Mine's at least 40 years old!
I could never be bored with this.
Your accent and "good-natured" commentary is a breath of fresh air.
I'd love to be with you making this stuff.
Cheers and good health - - -Rick from New Zealand.
Thanks, Rick : - )
I think the coolest part about this project is the fact you can even up the outside just by rotating the wheel with a planer/sander mounted at a spot to just shave off any access material along the outside!! This thing is turning out so cool!
Agree. and then also balancing, so remove extra where it is heavier. Probably not necessary, but will it counteract vibrations?
@@chieltl depends how fast its going to be spinning I guess. If its spinning with any sort of speed, it will want to be somewhere near balanced. Depending how far out it is, this could be achieved either by drilling small holes in it or adding screws
A planer or sander would be a far safer way. My first thought was a chainsaw 😆
I bet it can be cut with all sharp tool as if it was a lathe
About planning the outside-
I think the preferred method would be to mark the preferred diameter on the boutf sides while spinning and then plane the excess to the lines non turning, ican be hard to keep the planner tool still while rotating and there are definitely a risk for humps to be magnified. Also keep in mind that the grain orientation on the pecies will wary ,thus resulting in ship out and deep cutting when you go against the grain. There for you may have to plane from different directions. When the weel is true round you can sand it with angel grinder sanding block or belt sander.
This is for surface Finnish doe, rounding up with sand paper based
Method will be very time consuming proces.
Holy moly - was getting more and more excited until the last part was in - what a beauty!
Stunned... This belongs in a museum.
This contraption looks awesome, it kinda reminds me of a watermill. Also 23 minutes, that's fantastic. Can't wait to see the finished contraption.
I sat and watched the whole thing with a cup of tea. It was very soothing somehow. I love what you've built, and really appreciate your joy in the use of high and low tech to find a frugal solution.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for spinning the wheel & letting it stop in real time. It really shows the power of momentum.
I'm guessing you will true up the wheel similar to how Matthias Wandel cleaned up & balanced his large wooden bandsaw.
The design and manufacture of this great wheel helps me see how our predecessors were able, with perhaps simple tools, to make the huge water wheels that drove grain mills all over the U.S., a craft I'm sure they learned from you engineering geniuses across the pond. Thanks for the unintended history lesson.
Absolutely amazed. I watched the full wheel spin out of respect for your expertise and patience. Inspirational.
Tim: Props to you for finishing that wheel assembly by yourself...👍
I have to confess I watched all the way to the end. Another great job Tim 👍
Mighty fine wheel you have there!
Thank you kindly Ben : - )
Love how you're basically reinventing the industrial revolution
I agree. The layout and assembly takes alot of drive. I give you an "ATTABOY". Look forward to see the next edition.
Great project! Tip, for any future projects: grind a taper on the end of the bolts. It will make assembly so much easier.
And round and round it goes, there's so much energy in that wheel.
There is about as much energy in that spin as Tim's mass mutiplied by two feet!
That is one serious piece of engineering I think a lot of people don’t release the amount of work it takes just to get it to this stage looking forward to next week now
Spin the wheel, mark the bottom then spin again. See if it lands in the same place. After you balance it, mark evenly spaced sections with numbers. Place your bets!
The "heavy" spoke is the one opposite the extra weight of the clamps, or possibly the one just to the clockwise of that.
@@drekfletch yup. you can track it by watching the wheels speed. it'll slow down the most when the heavy part is heading to the top and speed up once it's passed the top most point. like you said it seems the heavy end is opposite those clamps.
Your restraint to not just waller out the holes with a file is admirable. Need a big spud wrench for the next one though. :p
Please define “waller”.
@@bonusflaps1749 To widen or wear out a hole to a larger state of being. Cheers.
@@Rebar77_real Thank you. I hadn't heard that term and a google search wasn't helpful. Have a good day.
Please don’t ever ask to skip until the end ever again. That whole video was brilliant, hats off to you Tim & Co.
Legend has it that to this day, the wheel still continues to spin
Wow, congratulations. That wheel is quite amazing, and quite the accomplishment.
That is an awesome project. Love it. Very nice that it spins slow and for so long. That is definitely a Giant Momentum Wheel.
*@Way Out West - Workshop Stuff*
23:07 Balancing, you can use the fact-ish that the heaviest part of the wheel probably stops at the lowest part of the wheel (at least for larger un-balances).
Then you can either add a small weight to the top of the wheel, or shave off some material on the bottom of the wheel.
Note that it is NOT GUARANTEED that the heaviest part stops at the lowest point, it can be a little before or after that point, especially when the wheel is nearly balanced, so check carefully first.
watching that wheel turn from start to finish is what the internet was invented for, aside from the other thing of course.
Great achievement Tim. Now what are you going to call this new invention. You've got to give it a name 🤩🤩🤩🤩
As fascinating as always. When smoothing out the outside, just think of it like a wood lathe and an electric sander to make the surface flat and circular. Look forward to the next video (with bells on).
This is blissfully epic!
Thanks for your story telling abilities and skills at never giving up...
Cheers!
Thank you very much
I'm constantly blown away by what you manage to accomplish with wood and a plasma cutter!
That wheel is bending the space time continuum of your barn Tim.
This is about the phyical dimension of a whole-log chipper I saw once in a pulp mill, (back when such a thing was allowed). It was steel, weighed 12 tons and rotated at 1000 rpm. It would chip a 8 ft.x12" log in about one second. Awesome
Poetry in motion.......watching that wheel spin is truly hypnotic. I guess rounding it up to true will be easy too - you won't need a lathe :)
I could never be bored watching that wheel.
Now you will have to take it all apart to stain and oil the woodwork and to undercoat and gloss paint the steel work. I would recommend painting the steel work on the right hand side of the wheel emerald green with gold coach lines and on the left hand side signal red with silver coach lines.
Yes, there is some method in my madness!
Green paint to represent "Starboard" or the right hand side of the wheel and Red paint to represent "Port" or the left hand side of the wheel.
That way if you continue to use the wheel as a power take off for pulleys & belts, chains & sprockets, etc. having painted items to match the driven implement will mean that everything is being driven off the desired section of shaft and rotating in the correct direction.
What a piece of artwork .
That's a beautiful thing. Back in the day I was involved in a contemporary art project that used a 5 ton flywheel powered up by a motorcycle minus the rear fender. We made a triangular affair that held the rear of the motorcycle off the floor via the axle and when flipped towards the flywheel pressed the rear wheel of the motorcycle against the flywheel. The motorcycle went through the gears and got the flywheel going at a tremendous pace - I can't remember the actual RPMs''s but it was pretty fast. Once up to speed the motorcycle was pushed forward away from the flywheel. The flywheel was cast in two halves and one half was 5# heavier than the other. It rotated so fast that at speed it made the frame of the flywheel hop due to the uneven weight,. We had to learn to restrict the speed so as not to destroy the gallery floor. The thing spun for hours. It was as awesome as it was scary.
I looked it up, it was 3 tons. But still...
5 tons?!
Bravo! I have made longer drills by machining a cylinder on the drill, then a length of rod, drill a matching hole in that & add a smaller perpendicular hole to let the gases out. I have always brazed them to reduce the chance of distortion with welding.
Fab job Tim , that will give the guys in the Isle of Man a run for their money, they got a fair wheel there !!
Remarkable, I thought there'd be a whole episode about balancing it, but its already superb.
This is serious Industrial Engineering, IKB would be proud, Tim.
Just awesome Tim, and beautiful.
Very satisfying, enjoyed every rev, the clicking was v. therapeutic.
good job.....wow all those blind holes...
That is one heck of a feat of engineering for a home project! Congratulations Tim!
Just one word - IMPRESSIVE!
Brilliant! Massive. That flywheel is so big, that I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was capable of changing The Earth's rotational speed. I anticipate that the nights will grow shorter and the days longer Real Soon Now!
Cheers, Chris
Damn! You've discovered my evil plan : - )
Fantastic, Tim. That spinning Wheel of Fortune had me hypnotised. An amazing piece of engineering and almost perfectly balanced. Well done. Its a credit to your skills.
Very nicely done sir! It took a bunch of math to get that right. I look forward to the time when it's completed. It will be very excited to see it being used to work.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
Best regards, Bob from Virginia USA
Extremely impressive!
It's awesome how good you are!!
I didn't even gust I was so mesmerised by the wheel turning and turning and turning and turning for 5 minutes
Holly Cow its awesome looking, medieval, steampunkt, all of the above!
I can see an American UA-cam channel building this only to go up a mountain and roll it down to see how far it'll go or if it can slice a car in half.
Good on you for finding a practical use.
Written and edited and the wheel is still turning.👍🏻
That is one hell of a wheel. What an engineering project. Well done mate.
Awesome job Tim!
Congratulations - really enjoyed the whole project and how you implemented. It is good that you have a free running assembly which will help with the balancing procedure. If I could make a suggestion. It would be to do the initial balancing by ‘adding weight’ rather than removing it, to enable you to calculate accurately any removal - otherwise you end up chasing your tail. In fact the add weight method can be the final method too.
Best darn videos on the internet
It is majestic, consider giving it a name!
I vote for Wheeley Mcwheelface
My guess is that once the rim is smoothed it will be close enough to balanced, as all the other components are so accurately cut and assembled. Thinking about big flywheels on beam engines, they don't need to turn particularly quickly, just enough to provide the required momentum. Splendid work!
16:15 - the wheel balance is amazing!!!
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Oh, the suspence while assembling it!
the fact that he builds all this to make his work easier (and funnier) its just mesmerizing. DIY industrial revolution [backyard project]
One or two more pairs of vice grips Tim!
Nice work boys. I have my idea on rounding the outside perfectly with the axle. 2 arms, one each side, from the axle out to the edge. A cross plate from arm to arm for holding a wood lathe tool and a couple legs to the floor. All tempory but youll get a perfectly round wheel. I think someone just spinning it by hand would be enough power for cutting the edge down round.
Cheers 🇨🇦
Thanks, James. A third of the grain would be running in the wrong direction though..
My suggestion is only to round off the wood only. To have the wheel perfectly round before you move forward with the test of the build. Making something round that big is not easy by hand. Love your passion and work.
I love the music she makes - a syncopated rhythm.
That's a nice bit of art
That was truly amazing. Even if it took longer to stop I’d have watched it all the way to the end. Cheers from Naples, Florida.
Definitely spun longer than I expected. Creaks and moans far more than I expected too. As tight as you built it I thought it'd be silent.
Woah! The scale on the thing is enormous,
It looks wheely good. Love seeing how your plans come together. Wonderful engineering. It's joyful to keep coming back to see how you're progressing with each project.
Now that ladies and Gentleman is what is know as SKILL !
That’s an impressive project!
Outstanding Sir 👌👌👍👍😇😇🍻🍻
That thing is incredible!
What a job, well done.
Very well done! I’m very impressed with that wheel! That takes a lot of skill to make something like that. It reminds me of something from the 1800’s. This wheel and that fantastic rail engine are very impressive builds. Well done sir!
The more I see of this build, the more I get the idea that this whole charcoal thing is just an elaborate plan to have a good excuse to build all these marvellous machines.
Actually I was beginning to forget the reason why we were building the wheel. Of course it’s for grinding charcoal 😅 all great fun!
1:22 "help it keep going, whatever i ask it to do"...no problem Tim, it will keep going even if you dont ask it to. i just fear for the neighbouring village.
You let go of the wheel at about 16:15 and the thing came to a fairly well fought resting time of nearly 23:15. The slight off-balance gave it one more shove around before it finally came to a stop. That's a SOLID 7 minutes, with a slightly noticeable slow in speed at about 5 minutes in. That thing will have some good heft to it once it's done!
Thanks, Brandon. I was in a rush to finish the video and didn't check myself - I just knew it was more than 5 minutes..
I recon that wheel is pretty well balanced as it is. I admire your perseverance Tim. You’re A “ wheely good fellow” 😂
So satisfying to look at how it spins and spins and spins and spins and... 🤩🤩🤩🤩
When the wheel is rotating, it sounds like there are some screws not quite tight enough, the squeaking indicates that there is some movement in a screw joint while the wheel tries to deform under it's own weight.
You're right, there are lots of nuts missing - I need to go and buy some..
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 after tightening everything you can repeat the test, it will probably rotate much longer if the deforming friction is eliminated
That is a work of art Tim kind of reminds me of the old Meccano Ferris Wheel that you used to build when you were a kid
Very impressive Tim 👏 👌 that was a great role out 👍👍👍
My first time at this channel. Thar's got some ruddy good bearin's in there lad. Thoroughly enjoyed
One of the most interesting chanels I have watched for awhile. Well Done......>
You so good at building 'Steam Punk' tools reminds me of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus.
That is amazing - what an accomplishment.
Well done sir!
Fantastic a tribute to your engineering skills.
I bet you were grinning ear to ear watching that creation. Imagine all the things it can do. I want to make one as soon as I can. Youre the best.
Got a sense of how powerful this wheel will be when you placed the board in the spokes to keep it from rotating and even though it was only one station when the wheel weight made it fall back a bit I could hear that board crack.