"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:25:02 -0700, "Steve B"
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:06:21 -0700, "Steve B"
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I have an old cement mixer. The shaft size that is on there for the
steel
wheels is about .7000+. I have some rubber tires with tubes that have a
hub
axle diameter of .625, or thereabouts. I know that all rods come in
standard fractional sizes. Is there some standard deduction when one is
calculating a shaft versus an opening size so it will just slide on, and
not
be a press fit requiring hydraulics, beating with a large hammer, or
immersion in dry ice or liquid nitrogen? This is going to be max 200
rpm
for 200 yds, so it is not critical. Is there a place to buy this
slightly
less than nominal diameter material in a cold rolled, so it will be a
little
stiffer than the normal rod?
Thanks
Steve
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Why not take a piece of 3/4" rod, and turn the ends down to 5/8" and put
a cotter pin in each end so the wheels dont fall off? If you want to be
fancy..you can thread both ends for .625 and put a lock nut on both
ends?
Gunner
That would require knowledge, expertise, and a lathe, of which I have
none.
Steve
Blink blink....really????
Want a lathe? I can find you one cheap.
Gunner
Hell, yes, I want one. Now, do I have the time to learn to use it? No.
But there rarely passes a day when I think, Man, if I only had a lathe.
I keep saying that I'm going to get the book out this week, but it actually
looks like this week may be it. It is done as far as the proofreading and
collating. Now, just to put it on the website, and promote it. I'm going
to send it to Oprah, and see if I can get on there. Limbaugh, Hannity, and
Levin, too. My SIL has been on twice, so that might help. We are talking
to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and McDonalds Ronald McDonald House, and
some other big dogs. I didn't hit the $80 million PowerBall Saturday, but I
have plenty of tickets. If I was to get a windfall, believe me, a lathe
would be one of the top ten items. Concrete floor insulated metal framing
electrified sandproof shop would be #1. In the meantime, life is good with
what I got. I got more than a lot of people in this time and age. I'm
thankful.
I went out yesterday, and in 100 degree weather, made a tongue and hitch for
the mixer, and finished off some small things. Actually felt good, even
with the temperature. Pulling together things at the containers, having
boxes and boxes of stuff to sort through, and hangers to make and stuff to
organize. It's like going shopping, you find new stuff all the time. There
are actually instances starting to happen when I need something, and I can
find it! Go figger.
My friend is bringing me six more huge parking lot lights, too. Hooboy.
Will post a pic. They are sweet weatherproof metal halide lights with
aluminum heads that are at least one cubic foot each. Transformer from 110
to 220v. The price was right, too. Free.
The wirefeed seemed to work fine, guess I had the tensioning nuts too tight.
The big wing nut on the hub seems to tighten up on its own, so will figure
out something to stop that. Maybe a double nut if I can find some thin
nuts.
Life is good.
Steve
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