Casting and Machining a Flywheel

How I make cast alloy, lead filled, steel rimed flywheels. Showing how to increase your lathe capacity.
Full casting techniques can be seen on my other videos.

Category:

Howto & Style

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• Metal
• casting
• at
• home
• furnace
• foundry
• lathe
• model
• engineering
• engines
• gas
• i.c.myford
• ML10
• bending
• rolls
• ring
• roller

[intheshitter]

Just wondering, but would it be possible make your own car rims using this method?

[myfordboy]

@intheshitter You could make it ok but i wouldn't like to put my life on a home cast wheel. Special alloys would be used for the material.

[nlo114]

Did you fit a steel boss to the wheel centre?

[myfordboy]

@nlo114 Yes, I fit a steel insert with an internal taper and use a collet with a matching taper on the crankshaft.

[myfordboy]

Yes they are ( not the lathe obviously! )

[3goldy]

Do you use water / oil to make the cutting more efficent?

[myfordboy]

@3goldy WD40 is good for alloy and I use a neat cutting oil on steel.

[jbrannon69]

wow you are a very talented man ! i love the videos keep them coming. and did you do a video on how you made your riser for the lathe?

[ZS6JMP]

You sir, are a jack off all trades. Watching you work is pure joy.

[ginsboy2003]

Excellent work!

[honeybunchickens]

nice work 

[vincent7520]

I'm impressed…

[TheTexaradoan]

Awesome !!!!

[bazengao]

are all those tools homemade?