Hi Harry, Sounds like you already "know the drill" for doing a jacketed rim. Good luck with it in any case. Cheers Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:05 PM Subject: [modeleng] Re: pumps, etc was > At 07:15 AM 2/22/06 -0500, you wrote: > >Couple of ideas for your flywheel: 1. make a cast iron or steel "jacket" > for the rim - Jeff > > Jeff (and Jesse), > I hadn't planned to go into it but I've found somone with an > identical pattern (the original patterns were lost in a fire) who may be > able to supply cast iron, if he ever gets 'around tuit'. However if the > C.I. is unreasonable or unavailable a pressed-on rim is exactly what I'd > planned to do. > I have already done that on a couple of Stuart engines where the > flywheel rims were too narrow to properly represent a typical rope drive > flywheel. I first turned the cast flywheel rims down to leave only a small > rectangle at the end of the spokes. I then took two slices of steel pipe > and turned them to fit tightly over the remaining rim, face and sides, one > slice over approximately one half the rim, the other slice over the other > half, with a stepped joint in the middle at the mating edges leaving > sufficient material to profile the new rim. I turned the step joint so > that the parting line was hidden in the depths of one of the rope grooves > and dressed the transition between the old casting and new rim so that when > viewed from any angle there is no sign, except for the difference in > appearance between iron and steel, that this is anything other than the > cast rim. Sorry I can't post a picture or I would. > > Regards, > Harry > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.