Project Stoopid!

[panchothedog]

Hack, your shop, and your machining abilities are ( in my opinion ) WAY above the average member on this forum. The guy that built the miniature Ferrari is the only other one I can think of in your league. Keep the pictures coming. Super interesting.

 

[Master Hack]

Pancho, thanks but ya are exaggerating...

among the 873 projects in progress right now is my DIY lawn dethacher. The resident wench here has requested the grass here @ MTL needs fixin. that requires a machine.
my inner cheapskate would not authorize a rental, so....
i built one, keeping with tradition only scrap materials and parts are used.
The 12hp vertical shaft flathead briggs didn't want to coperate, however.
l'm still tryin to unnastan why the flywheel key sheared off.
yellow arrow is the mag
red is the piston.
Engines do not run with ignition timing off 90°.
this qualifies as a WTF moment.
back to our regularly scheduled programming soon.

 

[Master Hack]

So the keyway on the crankshaft is buggered up from chewing up the key. As an experiment l am trying to go keyless. l need this thing to run a few more hours B4 winter repair season. Dont have time right now to fix it right now.
How well ya think Loctite would work?
l have some #727 and it is some seriously tenacious shyt! l lapped the tapers, cleaned them and applied a film, put the bolt in a torked it down.
So how long ya think it gunna work?
1. a few minutes
2. about an hour
3. all day
4.? what its fixed!
5. til it gets hot.
take yer guess and post it up.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

They go keyless flywheels all the time on race engines. Then you have infinite variable timing.
A taper is pretty stout as is for holding. But you know this.

It'll be fine
- some youtuber

 

[Master Hack]

They go keyless flywheels all the time on race engines. Then you have infinite variable timing.
A taper is pretty stout as is for holding. But you know this.

It'll be fine
- some youtuber

I'm bettin that they aren't using the same type taper as a 40 year old B&S.
I did take advantage of the situation and advance it a fuzz.
and yeah tapers work, ya see em all over the place.

 

[Master Hack]

Back to project #1. Both of my fans have been complaining of the lack of progress.
Ordering parts online costs actual money and a lack of disposable funds has occured.
My go fund me page has become awww fu** me page.
Now thas has been resolved and the big ugly brown truck has been making an appearance.
put some pieces on the center section to ckrck if all this junk is gunna work.
coupla views.

 

[Denny]

Only 3 brake rotors. Is that going to be enough?

 

[Master Hack]

Only 3 brake rotors. Is that going to be enough?

No! l think l'll add a couple up front!

 

[Master Hack]

On todays's episode of Hack's workshop we delve into the bits and pieces of the rear center section. Specificly the hub for the 3rd brake rotor.
These hubs are handy for lotsa things including sprockets and brake rotors.

Finished Bore Weld On Hub - Keyway & 2 Setscrews

www.nitrochain.com

In this case it gonna be rotor. The M/C rotors have a large bolt pattern on the hub and can be difficult to use. Short story is l like these: 11.5 inch OD and 2.25 lD.
welding the rotor to the hub never really works very well, so l wont do dat.
The rotor has a five bolt mounting pattern on a 3.25 dia. (5x3.25)
I need to make a doughnut with a 2.25 ID about 4.5 OD and with 5 threaded holes on a 3.25 diameter. Prob .250 thick. Weld that to the hub bolt the rotor to it and all this mess has to be concentric to the axle centerline within a coupla thousands. Simple!
This rotor was the best deal l came across with 10 minutes searching.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355420960518

this calculator is really handy:

Machinists Calculator

A helpful little calculator and formulas for many machining projects.

littlemachineshop.com

Stay tuned as we fumble, bumble and stumble our way through this little project.

 

[Master Hack]

I plugged some random numbers into the calculator and this came out.


now just to make a part....

maybe some day l can graduate to the Big machine shop?

 

[Master Hack]

I ordered shocks from Summit Racing. My favorite shocks, Pro comp are no longer made. I ordered these cuz Bilstiens or similar, are beyond the budget that my inner cheapskate set. So these arrived next day, and shipping was free.
Gotta build some coil overs.