I wonder if you wouldn't have had the same amount of energy with the big flages only / no lead. (But I don't know the math/physics of it, so may be completely wrong)
@@thesfreader3068 You are correct. The maths isn't that hard either for a plain disc. Mass isn't that important relative to the radius of the flywheel in these calculations. He could have achieved the same effect just by tightening the belt between the chipper and the engine. The engine has more than enough flywheel to cope.
Quite so. I was hoping to see him use both the larger and the smaller pipe to make a ring of lead at least. Oh well. The one he built is not quite the worst flywheel design one could come up with.
Nice one guys. Your workshop still makes me laugh. It's a hodge podge of old bits and pieces then you have a computer and your laser and plasma cutters. Keep up the great work.
When I made a lead filled slide hammer, I melted the lead in-situ, feeding in strips of lead and heating the housing with a blow torch. Your way is better for larger jobs through. Good work.
Your just what we need after a busy stressful day.We love to watch you and ideas and interesting inventions thank you Tim .love Ireland as well.🌍🏴🌍🌍🌍🌍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! I was wondering how you would balance it - I would have enjoyed seeing that process. Hope it proves its worth, I look forward to seeing that part. Les
I imagined the flywheel as a much bigger, thinner wheel ... to get an assist from the centrifugal force from the wider diameter. The trade-off being, I think, it is easier to get it spinning with a smaller diameter. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing how it works! :)
Yes, the further the mass is from the point of rotation, the more energy you can store with the same speed. It will be harder to get spinning as it is harder to change its speed, witch is the point of a flywheel. Using the same amount of lead but having the disc thinner and/or hollowing out the middle will make use of the mass more efficiently for the purpose of storing rotational momentum.
When melting lead put in a little piece of candle wax (careful it will burn with big flame) this makes the lead more fluid and clean it from oxides and other stuff.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Try it with some really dirty lead in a little steel can on top of a gas stove. It really works extremely well to clean the metal and make individual droplets of lead come together. I use wax all the time when melting lead you can see some of that in my videos on my channel. Just be really careful about the temperature. You do not want to add wax when the melt is too hot, it will burn very strong then. Add it just after all the lead has melted and then stir when there is liquid wax on top of the molten lead also scraping the sides and bottom of the melting pot. All the dirt will become very powdery and float to the top. The lead will become very well flowing and combine to a shiny melt. Be careful about the powdery dirt floating on the top as it contains lead oxide and is toxic. I store all of mine in a steel can and at some point I will probably reduce it back to lead metal.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 You can watch an example of it in my video "Sandstein-Stufe mit flüssigem Metall reparieren / repair a broken stone slab with molten metal (Pb)" on my channel. It is a video in German language but at minute 4;30 you can see how I add a little piece of wax to the molten lead. Before the addition of wax the molten lead liked to stick to the impurities on top and was not flowing so well. after addition of a few pieces of wax and stirring the impurities became very powdery and separated from the molten lead which was flowing very well then.
flywheels are made with large diameters for a reason, the further the weight is from the centre the more energy it takes to rotate it and the more inertia it has once you get it up to speed.
Yeah. The disadvantage of course is that large spoked flywheels are harder to make. I’m sure Tim could do it, but the question is how much time does he want to spend building his machine vs using his machine.
You're right to be cognisant of the danger, but it's equally important to be able to realistically quantify that risk. Doing this sort of thing every now and then is fine really. Doing it as a daily job, more of a problem. The main danger with heavy metal poisoning is ingesting or inhaling oxides, and mainly during periods of life when bone and fat are being laid down (mostly childhood and adolescence). Metallic lead is, AFAIK, not very bioavailable and therefore relatively safe to handle so long as you wash your hands after exposure and before any activity likely to lead to ingestion (eating, drinking, smoking etc.). I expect (but cannot confirm scientifically) that Tim's exposure making this flywheel is less than inhaling 4-star (leaded petrol) fumes, or living in an old house with lead (or lead-soldered) water pipes. I'd also guesstimate that this activity is less hazardous either to Tim's health or the environment than other common workshop and farm activities, such as exposure to used motor oil, 2-stroke exhaust, cutting oil smoke, welding rod flux smoke, or heavy metal fumes from welding plated steel.
Lead is not like other chemicals - where there is low risk if exposures are only small and occasional. Lead exposure is cumulative, and there is no safe threshold (no safe amount to be exposed to). The idea that "a little bit here and there is fine" is completely untrue when it comes to lead.
You may not know this, but it was absolutely lovely watching partners work together to pour lead. I think of a flywheel as being a larger diameter. I'm sure this will help, but it feels like a bigger wheel, even if not as wide would accomplish more. The weight near the center is not helping as much as the weight on the outside.
I had no clue what a fly wheel is. But now I understand. Well mostly. I can't wait for part 2. (Sandra, I will take one of those toasty marshmallows! Yum!)
A fly wheel is a weight that keep the chipper moving when a load is applied such as branches. The purpose of this is to put more power behind it for thicker branches. here is the definition of flywheel. gives a bit better understanding. a heavy revolving wheel in a machine that is used to increase the machine's momentum and thereby provide greater stability or a reserve of available power during interruptions in the delivery of power to the machine.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I understand it is what it is ! I can wait ! How are you going to control it from running to fast and tearing itself apart ?
76kg of lead would also be about £100 worth ! (Just weighed in a load cleared out from the end of our local rifle range.) Next time, please use eye protection. I've had lead explosions, due to damp in scrap lead and moulds. Voilent and frightening. And molten lead is not nice stuff to have flying around.
Should use respirators too... lead fumes are dangerous! (and I soldered lamps for a part-time job as a teen to make ends meet. I'm sure I inhaled enough fumes for a few lead sinkers! Back in the early 70's, there was little thought of care for the health of workers)
based on my estimates, a flywheel of 10mm thick steel would have to be 110mm diameter to have roughly the same inertia. I wonder if your pipes full of lead might have come off with a hammer (or chisel) easily Happy chipping!
Would have made a nice parts or rock tumbler. Shame we couldn't see it in action. Hopefully we'll see a with and without on a thick branch. PS, consider doing audio books especially for the younger audience.
Kinetic battery...if balanced... Now...peruse the following...incrementally add to a flywheel with sections...with water. Make a feed system that incrementally fills sections based on rotationary imbalance.
Interesting approach for a quick flywheel - though I wonder, do you have a plan to get the excess lead out of the cone kiln/crucible, or will that particular one just be used for similar projects going forward?
Would the process of making a ring instead of a disk be inordinately complicated? Putting the mass further from the axis so it's moving faster while still having the lower weight. Then again, you'd then have to deal with the bracing connecting the shaft and the ring absorbing the momentum and twisting.
Not sure if I missed it. The adapter with the slot in it was there just so that you could fit the adapter on it and put the wedge in it and then weld it? Also how did you balance it? Other than that I did you did a bang up job! Nice work Tim. Look forward to seeing it being tested. I think it will work wonders!
@@kameljoe21 you can rest it on a smooth rolling ball bearing and then wait for it to settle, mark it rotate 180° and wait for settle again mark until you are confident about the heavy stop and add material at the other end
@@ratchet1freak That may be true if you have a big enough on as this has a hole in the middle. You would need something to put on said ball to place this flywheel on.
@@kameljoe21 doesn't need to be a big ball bearing, if the hole for the shaft is truly round then you can use a rollerskate bearing for that with a thin shaft. Though that might not be strong enough for this lead monstrosity
Never grind lead, lead dust is a real hazard, much worse than lead fumes people always worry about. Reciprocating saw for example produces larger shavings that are much safer and easier to clean up. Rarely is lead bad for you from just one exposure but if you work with it regularly its good to follow all the safety precautions as best as you can.
Yes, it would have been better to make a thin disk by partially filling the larger size pipe, or even better, rolling an inner ring and casting a ring of lead. However that's all extra complexity, and this may well be good enough. Perfection is the enemy of getting things done, and all that...
"pouring this much lead is a two person job-" Me thinking: "I feel like that could be done with one per-" "Safely at least" Me thinking: "I retract my statement and second that remark" Also, if I recall correctly lead melts at 621.5°f. on a random note I think we've forgotten why exactly we wanted imperial over metric, and we're too stubborn to admit it, so I say to my fellow Americans, just give up, metric's better, no fractions, multiples of tens, everybody else is using it, if I have to put both imperial and metric measurements in a message one more time I think I might lose it 😂
I thought the diameter was important in a flywheel as well as the weight as a greater diameter has more centifical force? I do believe the formula is weight + diameter but maybe I'm missing something.
Not a critique, but I am interested to know the capabilities of your CNC. Could you have, for example, created the profile needed for the spline in say quarter inch material by cutting out many and then welding them together? I only ask because I am currently shopping plasma tables, and it's kind of difficult to compare them. I do not have any experience with plasma cutting. If you happen to have insight on comparing plasma, laser, water, traditional spindle, I would appreciate your input.
I think you can chose the plasma cutter to suit what you want to cut, and then add it to any x,y,z table. Apparently mine will cut up to 10mm but I've only cut up to 8. If you're in the Uk or Ireland talk to xtremeplasma..
Awesome build! But you should really be more careful with the lead than that, it's a very bad pollutant so pouring it on something directly on the ground doesn't seem wise.
I hope you didn't use that fire for cooking anything. As all the as all of the contaminants boil-off it is then though confection brought back into the fire.
Why don't you also change the configuration instead of inserting the branches from the side why not from above and allow gravity to assist in the chopping
That then requires one to pick up the entire branch and feed it down ward.. Its not feasible. Gravity would not really assist and it would case more jams because it would be forcing the branches in rather than pulling them in which is what this machine does.
@@52memor Chippers/shredders might be. This is not. This is a clunker. The way this works is it pulls in the branch as it cuts it. A shredder/chipper has blades on a disc which slice the branch. If a branch is not pushed in to the blades it will not cut. Some of the much larger chipper/shredders have big wheels that pull the branches in to the chipper/shredder. This machine does not do that. This machine uses the fact that it has a small about of blades and the distance between them determin the length of the chunk of wood. When the branch is inserted in to the machine the first 2 blades cut off a chunk while the next set of blades come togeather and grip/pull/cut all at the same time. When there is not enough momentium it jams pretty much stops because it does not have a big enough amount of power behind the rotation to make the cut. Adding this fly wheel will give the cutters more force so that it can make those bigger cuts. Different types of machines require different applications. In much larger chipper/shreadder they will be horzantial much like this machine. The smaller they are the more vertical they become. The much larger machines will have 1 to 4 feed rollers and some of the biggest ones can chip full size trees with ease.
Cool :) if it turns out it needs more flywheel, you don't have to make it heavier, you can instead put the weight further from the center
I wonder if you wouldn't have had the same amount of energy with the big flages only / no lead. (But I don't know the math/physics of it, so may be completely wrong)
@@thesfreader3068 You are correct. The maths isn't that hard either for a plain disc. Mass isn't that important relative to the radius of the flywheel in these calculations.
He could have achieved the same effect just by tightening the belt between the chipper and the engine. The engine has more than enough flywheel to cope.
Quite so. I was hoping to see him use both the larger and the smaller pipe to make a ring of lead at least. Oh well. The one he built is not quite the worst flywheel design one could come up with.
Nice one guys. Your workshop still makes me laugh. It's a hodge podge of old bits and pieces then you have a computer and your laser and plasma cutters. Keep up the great work.
Delighted you've been able to use some of the lead - I knew you'd have a use for it someday!!
When I made a lead filled slide hammer, I melted the lead in-situ, feeding in strips of lead and heating the housing with a blow torch. Your way is better for larger jobs through. Good work.
Your just what we need after a busy stressful day.We love to watch you and ideas and interesting inventions thank you Tim .love Ireland as well.🌍🏴🌍🌍🌍🌍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! I was wondering how you would balance it - I would have enjoyed seeing that process. Hope it proves its worth, I look forward to seeing that part. Les
Nice pour with the cone kiln!
nice to see you here NHIL 🙌
They're experts. Tim said so.
Didn't expect to see you here! How are ya?
I imagined the flywheel as a much bigger, thinner wheel ... to get an assist from the centrifugal force from the wider diameter. The trade-off being, I think, it is easier to get it spinning with a smaller diameter. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing how it works! :)
Yes, the further the mass is from the point of rotation, the more energy you can store with the same speed. It will be harder to get spinning as it is harder to change its speed, witch is the point of a flywheel. Using the same amount of lead but having the disc thinner and/or hollowing out the middle will make use of the mass more efficiently for the purpose of storing rotational momentum.
When melting lead put in a little piece of candle wax (careful it will burn with big flame) this makes the lead more fluid and clean it from oxides and other stuff.
Really? That sounds like it could be something you made up?
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Try it with some really dirty lead in a little steel can on top of a gas stove. It really works extremely well to clean the metal and make individual droplets of lead come together. I use wax all the time when melting lead you can see some of that in my videos on my channel. Just be really careful about the temperature. You do not want to add wax when the melt is too hot, it will burn very strong then. Add it just after all the lead has melted and then stir when there is liquid wax on top of the molten lead also scraping the sides and bottom of the melting pot. All the dirt will become very powdery and float to the top. The lead will become very well flowing and combine to a shiny melt.
Be careful about the powdery dirt floating on the top as it contains lead oxide and is toxic. I store all of mine in a steel can and at some point I will probably reduce it back to lead metal.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 You can watch an example of it in my video "Sandstein-Stufe mit flüssigem Metall reparieren / repair a broken stone slab with molten metal (Pb)" on my channel. It is a video in German language but at minute 4;30 you can see how I add a little piece of wax to the molten lead. Before the addition of wax the molten lead liked to stick to the impurities on top and was not flowing so well. after addition of a few pieces of wax and stirring the impurities became very powdery and separated from the molten lead which was flowing very well then.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 ua-cam.com/video/58eCmGv7VsE/v-deo.html
He's done it again (7m30s) ; PERFECT colour coordination with the chipper!
flywheels are made with large diameters for a reason, the further the weight is from the centre the more energy it takes to rotate it and the more inertia it has once you get it up to speed.
Yeah. The disadvantage of course is that large spoked flywheels are harder to make. I’m sure Tim could do it, but the question is how much time does he want to spend building his machine vs using his machine.
@@lauraandedwardcannon8861 A solution would be to make a ring, which would be rather possible using the cutter and some welding !
BTW Grinding lead is a pretty bad idea :/
What he said.
@@motomotomotomot Yes! I grimaced when I saw that.
Some terrific ideas and engineering going on. Thanks for sharing
I think "inertia" is the better word than "momentum" in this case, but we all knew exactly what you were saying.
Too bad we couldn't see it in action! But with that much weight in motion there's no doubt it'll eat up anything you throw at it
Awesome chopsaw rig... very ingenious. I well understand flywheels and their effect on my model steam and model trains.
Very nice. I am only a little concerned with cutting the lead, and the lead dust that makes... and cleaning up after the smelting...
You're right to be cognisant of the danger, but it's equally important to be able to realistically quantify that risk. Doing this sort of thing every now and then is fine really. Doing it as a daily job, more of a problem.
The main danger with heavy metal poisoning is ingesting or inhaling oxides, and mainly during periods of life when bone and fat are being laid down (mostly childhood and adolescence). Metallic lead is, AFAIK, not very bioavailable and therefore relatively safe to handle so long as you wash your hands after exposure and before any activity likely to lead to ingestion (eating, drinking, smoking etc.).
I expect (but cannot confirm scientifically) that Tim's exposure making this flywheel is less than inhaling 4-star (leaded petrol) fumes, or living in an old house with lead (or lead-soldered) water pipes. I'd also guesstimate that this activity is less hazardous either to Tim's health or the environment than other common workshop and farm activities, such as exposure to used motor oil, 2-stroke exhaust, cutting oil smoke, welding rod flux smoke, or heavy metal fumes from welding plated steel.
Lead is not like other chemicals - where there is low risk if exposures are only small and occasional. Lead exposure is cumulative, and there is no safe threshold (no safe amount to be exposed to). The idea that "a little bit here and there is fine" is completely untrue when it comes to lead.
Beautifully done Tim. I might want to see the bigger one spending that fast. Lol Take care and thank for sharing!
Really interesting and employable vlog
ENJOYABLE😂😂😂
Wallace seems to have lost his trusty dog Gromit but luckily he has gained a new companion!
You may not know this, but it was absolutely lovely watching partners work together to pour lead.
I think of a flywheel as being a larger diameter. I'm sure this will help, but it feels like a bigger wheel, even if not as wide would accomplish more. The weight near the center is not helping as much as the weight on the outside.
You're right, William - But I would have had to turn down the shoulders on that hub and I don't have a lathe. Yet.
I had no clue what a fly wheel is. But now I understand. Well mostly. I can't wait for part 2. (Sandra, I will take one of those toasty marshmallows! Yum!)
A fly wheel is a weight that keep the chipper moving when a load is applied such as branches. The purpose of this is to put more power behind it for thicker branches. here is the definition of flywheel. gives a bit better understanding. a heavy revolving wheel in a machine that is used to increase the machine's momentum and thereby provide greater stability or a reserve of available power during interruptions in the delivery of power to the machine.
To supplement William above ↑ - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel
Well done bro it ill be interesting to see how it works now. Safe travels
Fascinating, can't wait to see it in action!
You should make it thinner and larger diameter. It would weight the same but it would have larger moment of inertia.
He said that himself in the video.
@@spinaway Did he? I didn't hear the relationship between diameter and momentum for the same mass mentioned
@@PKMartin it's in the description
@@ratchet1freak so it is. Not said in the video, but it's right there
Oh man ! I was so pumped to watch it working but NOOO ! I must wait for part 2 ! Lol 😂
Sorry! But it really is shocking weather here : - )
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I understand it is what it is ! I can wait ! How are you going to control it from running to fast and tearing itself apart ?
@@davekimbler2308 - Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! 😂
Love to see all the amazing projects that come out of your workshop. I would be curious to see where you get all your chippable wood from
I believe it's mostly from downed trees about the farm (:
76kg of lead would also be about £100 worth !
(Just weighed in a load cleared out from the end of our local rifle range.)
Next time, please use eye protection.
I've had lead explosions, due to damp in scrap lead and moulds. Voilent and frightening. And molten lead is not nice stuff to have flying around.
I have a super old lead sinker weigth that has to be more than 10kg. It pretty awesome..
Should use respirators too... lead fumes are dangerous! (and I soldered lamps for a part-time job as a teen to make ends meet. I'm sure I inhaled enough fumes for a few lead sinkers! Back in the early 70's, there was little thought of care for the health of workers)
Eye protection when pouring lead is a really good idea.
Not only eye protection - lung protection. Ah, I can see that Danny below already mentioned it. ↓
maybe you could do some centrifugal casting of the lead inside the larger pipe to have a lighter, but wider flywheel?
based on my estimates, a flywheel of 10mm thick steel would have to be 110mm diameter to have roughly the same inertia.
I wonder if your pipes full of lead might have come off with a hammer (or chisel) easily
Happy chipping!
I saw somewhere the flywheel made as a concrete filled tire on car wheel. Much heavy than this.
But your job is also great. Be careful of lead...
Excellent.👍
If you attach a well-levered foot pedal to your pipe cutter saw, you can lift the saw by foot and turn the pipe by hand☀️
Would have made a nice parts or rock tumbler. Shame we couldn't see it in action. Hopefully we'll see a with and without on a thick branch.
PS, consider doing audio books especially for the younger audience.
great job
Surely it must be very painful being such a clever man 🤣 ( the mad professor)
Kinetic battery...if balanced... Now...peruse the following...incrementally add to a flywheel with sections...with water. Make a feed system that incrementally fills sections based on rotationary imbalance.
complicated but very interesting
Amazing
Aargh! Cliffhanger!
"Be sure to tune in next week as our intrepid hero battles evil forces of inertia!"
Another interesting video. I was looking for a previous video of the chipper?? Keep them coming.
Previous video is on the other channel ...
ua-cam.com/users/WayOutWestx2videos
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For the record, auto tire shops often have BUCKETS of old lead weights just hanging around, from old tire balance weights.
that would make a really fun video, no? How much torque it produced (the same weight) at various distances from center.
Interesting approach for a quick flywheel - though I wonder, do you have a plan to get the excess lead out of the cone kiln/crucible, or will that particular one just be used for similar projects going forward?
Would the process of making a ring instead of a disk be inordinately complicated? Putting the mass further from the axis so it's moving faster while still having the lower weight. Then again, you'd then have to deal with the bracing connecting the shaft and the ring absorbing the momentum and twisting.
Interesting fact there are lead pipes in Pompeii made from lead the romans took there from England 🏴
I would have kept the full diameter and added an inner wall to maximize the torque.
Good idea. (Why are you telling me now!)
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Not being a time traveller I can only offer suggestions for next time.
Not sure if I missed it. The adapter with the slot in it was there just so that you could fit the adapter on it and put the wedge in it and then weld it?
Also how did you balance it?
Other than that I did you did a bang up job! Nice work Tim. Look forward to seeing it being tested. I think it will work wonders!
balancing was done by welding some steel on it
@@ratchet1freak I heard that part. the part I wanted to know was how he knew exactly where to place it? All I can think is an old car balancing cone.
@@kameljoe21 you can rest it on a smooth rolling ball bearing and then wait for it to settle, mark it rotate 180° and wait for settle again mark until you are confident about the heavy stop and add material at the other end
@@ratchet1freak That may be true if you have a big enough on as this has a hole in the middle. You would need something to put on said ball to place this flywheel on.
@@kameljoe21 doesn't need to be a big ball bearing, if the hole for the shaft is truly round then you can use a rollerskate bearing for that with a thin shaft. Though that might not be strong enough for this lead monstrosity
Is it only me thinking he could have put the lead in the existing pulley ?
Next step: painting the flywheel. Hopefully one of those psychedelic optical illusions...
Road and rail wheels maybe?
At about 5:20 in this video...
And ONCE AGAIN somebody had to input their _"2-cents"_ regardless of whether they were asked or not...😊
you guys should have worn respirators for this, lead fumes are nasty.
Never grind lead, lead dust is a real hazard, much worse than lead fumes people always worry about. Reciprocating saw for example produces larger shavings that are much safer and easier to clean up.
Rarely is lead bad for you from just one exposure but if you work with it regularly its good to follow all the safety precautions as best as you can.
Another fun video. However isn't inertia the aim of a flywheel and the weights need to be further from the hub?
Yes, it would have been better to make a thin disk by partially filling the larger size pipe, or even better, rolling an inner ring and casting a ring of lead. However that's all extra complexity, and this may well be good enough. Perfection is the enemy of getting things done, and all that...
@@robinbennett5994 Agreed. I have lots of half finished 'perfect projects' currently progressing at 15 WTF per hour.
You're right - I needed to turn down the shoulders on that hub though and I don't have a lathe. Yet.
"pouring this much lead is a two person job-"
Me thinking: "I feel like that could be done with one per-"
"Safely at least"
Me thinking: "I retract my statement and second that remark"
Also, if I recall correctly lead melts at 621.5°f. on a random note I think we've forgotten why exactly we wanted imperial over metric, and we're too stubborn to admit it, so I say to my fellow Americans, just give up, metric's better, no fractions, multiples of tens, everybody else is using it, if I have to put both imperial and metric measurements in a message one more time I think I might lose it 😂
I thought the diameter was important in a flywheel as well as the weight as a greater diameter has more centifical force? I do believe the formula is weight + diameter but maybe I'm missing something.
See link below if you're curious. I believe the relevant equation is here is I = 1/2mr^2
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_moments_of_inertia
You're right - I needed to turn down the shoulders on that hub though and I don't have a lathe. Yet.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 - You know you can make one, Tim. I know you can! Only 24 hours to a day, right?
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Just another learning experience. I love your whole operation, keep up the good work!
Not a critique, but I am interested to know the capabilities of your CNC. Could you have, for example, created the profile needed for the spline in say quarter inch material by cutting out many and then welding them together? I only ask because I am currently shopping plasma tables, and it's kind of difficult to compare them. I do not have any experience with plasma cutting. If you happen to have insight on comparing plasma, laser, water, traditional spindle, I would appreciate your input.
I think you can chose the plasma cutter to suit what you want to cut, and then add it to any x,y,z table. Apparently mine will cut up to 10mm but I've only cut up to 8. If you're in the Uk or Ireland talk to xtremeplasma..
From the beginning i haven't understood the need for that big diesel. Is something like a 4hp electric motor with a flywheel too small?
How do you plan to balance the flywheel? Or am I mistaken in thinking that if it is out of balance that it could become a destructive force?
I just let it spin and see where it settled. It chose the same place so I added some weight until it seemed to be random
any update on this working on the chipper? I would love to see how it works out for you.
It's working really well - have a look in the woodchip playlist
You call It "wood chipper" you should name it something friendly like Dave or Fred.
What was the outcome?
the dynamic balance of the lead wheel is worrying me
Make a box for the gears and fill with 90 wt gear lube.
Its not really needed. Bit of grease directly on the gears is more than enough.
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Could you have not added a weight to the fly wheel whats all ready on so it’s like steam train wheel
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Awesome build! But you should really be more careful with the lead than that, it's a very bad pollutant so pouring it on something directly on the ground doesn't seem wise.
Overspill solidifies on contact and is simple to collect up and dispose of properly. Dust is the real problem.
Here's a hint: Why not do all the thinking / calculating / measuring BEFORE starting to fabricate something you have no clue will work? Jus' Sayin'...
I hope you didn't use that fire for cooking anything.
As all the as all of the contaminants boil-off it is then though confection brought back into the fire.
I don't recommend using a lead filled flywheel. It might give you lead poisening.
Yes - but only if I lick it
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Why don't you also change the configuration instead of inserting the branches from the side why not from above and allow gravity to assist in the chopping
That then requires one to pick up the entire branch and feed it down ward.. Its not feasible. Gravity would not really assist and it would case more jams because it would be forcing the branches in rather than pulling them in which is what this machine does.
@@kameljoe21 All/most shredders are gravity fed .
@@52memor Chippers/shredders might be. This is not. This is a clunker. The way this works is it pulls in the branch as it cuts it. A shredder/chipper has blades on a disc which slice the branch. If a branch is not pushed in to the blades it will not cut. Some of the much larger chipper/shredders have big wheels that pull the branches in to the chipper/shredder. This machine does not do that. This machine uses the fact that it has a small about of blades and the distance between them determin the length of the chunk of wood. When the branch is inserted in to the machine the first 2 blades cut off a chunk while the next set of blades come togeather and grip/pull/cut all at the same time. When there is not enough momentium it jams pretty much stops because it does not have a big enough amount of power behind the rotation to make the cut. Adding this fly wheel will give the cutters more force so that it can make those bigger cuts. Different types of machines require different applications. In much larger chipper/shreadder they will be horzantial much like this machine. The smaller they are the more vertical they become. The much larger machines will have 1 to 4 feed rollers and some of the biggest ones can chip full size trees with ease.
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Aren't you better off with a flywheel from a car? wall this is not in balance and balancing is necessary