Flywheel Lathe Machine

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Flywheel lathe machine.

Be very careful of the ring gear. The van norman line of flywheel grinders is manufactured in the usa by irontite products inc. The pocket type flywheels have the pressure plate mounted on a raised outer area and the disc s go in the pocket against the flywheel surface. Dcm tech s flywheel grinder is built with rugged quality.

Light duty automotive clutches have a flat flywheel surface. New gears aer sharp and worn ones are even sharper. A dovetailed slide and saddle along with a lathe compound were set up on a rider block to turn the od and repositioned to cut the faces of the flywheel rim. The answer yes you can.

Explore dcm tech s entire line of rotary grinders and automotive machine products for your rebuilding needs. It s only ink and paper. 1455 forum posts 579 photos. A lot depends on the size of the flywheel in relation to the chucks faceplates lathe available number of spokes and how true the inner edge of the rim is to start with.

Do you have a particular flywheel in mind and can you remind us of the size of your equipment. Watch more how to videos. The arbor the flywheel was mounted on was driven by either a small two cylinder steam engine run on shop air and some gearing or by a dc motor and some gearing. In this video i show how i use my bendpak brake lathe to machine the flywheel for my fairmont.

Most heavy duty double disc clutches have the recessed center. Can you resurface a flywheel by machining with a brake lathe. We eventually gave up doing flywheels and just sent them out to a proper automotive machine shop that had a blanchard grinder similar to the one gary posted a pic of. There were some parts i cut out of th.

Using the same tried and true methods that have been used since this model design came into being in the 1990 s. The dcm tech sg7000 flywheel g. Filthy rich shows you how.