[TheForge] Re: Ralph, Mike and their toys

[Mike Spencer]

Well, Ralph, I now have an '87 Ford pickup with front-wheel-only drive
and a 12" flatbelt pulley a foot or so ahead of where the rear bumper
used to be.  Various things welded on, welded together or chopped off.
Just have to make a big bushing for another pulley to fit it to the 2"
gear shaft and I'll be ready to try Plan B for the A&O hammer.

> It was kind of a crazy set up as the driveshaft was couple directly
> to the main arbor (with a U-joint of course) - but it was over 17
> degrees and that could have well been the reason they lost the
> bearings as well.

Drive shft to  line shaft is *maybe* as much as 15 deghrees but I'd
say a bit less.  I made a rubber coupling but I couldn't keep teh two
halves aligned and it woggled pretty bad.   So I just have a rubber
pad between two matching flanges to couple them now.  We'll just have
to see if it beats the bearings.

This is probably silly but I'm using a belt instead of a direct
coupling to the gear shaft because I don't want to cut town a dead
apple tree that's in the way.  I just like that tree.  It'll fall down
one of  these years but in the meantime...

Ho hum.  By the time I get this thing working I'll have forgotten
what I was going to do with it.  Something about hot iron, wasn't it?
:-) 

- Mike

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