My old South Bend lathe turning an old gear into a new flywheel

I had this big old gear and thought it would make a nice flywheel for a little engine I want to make, so here I'm cutting it down on my old 1921 15"x5' Southbend lathe.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• machine
• work
• lathe
• metal
• turning
• old
• gear
• flywheel
• engine
• south
• bend

[wackedoutdude]

Good idea thats ace mate and its going to look mighty fine on your engine. If it was a bit hard to turn you could always try annealing it first.

[danfhowe]

@wackedoutdude Ya, I could have done that. maybe could have thrown it in the fire, I never thought about that. It's done now so no need to any more. Thanks for watching.  Dan

[gustavoindustry]

nice job.

[danfhowe]

@gustavoindustry Thankyou

[rlewis1946]

Talk about making a silk purse out of a old sow's ear.... the fly wheel looks great! And to think you and a 90 year old SB lathe did it. Congratulation on a fine looking project!

Roy Lewis Atlanta, Georgia USA

[danfhowe]

@rlewis1946 Thank you for the very nice comment, the old lathe did a good job on peeling the hard teeth off that old gear. If I do say so myself, the flywheel didn't turn out too bad. Dan

[danfhowe]

@HawaiianMachinist It might be awhile for the finished product, it's 20 degrees below zero in my shop right now so I won't be playing around out there. We also recieved 22 inches of snow this weekend. Dan

[HawaiianMachinist]

@danfhowe Love to see the finished product...I'm like U, I like makiing stuff...

[danfhowe]

@HawaiianMachinist Yes, the whole works took about 5 hours, including getting the sides trued up and down by the shaft, this was a very poorly machined gear to start with. thanks for watching. Dan

[HawaiianMachinist]

A lotta turning to get her to finish...looks like like U can only take about 0.002" @ a time...