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.