kbenz
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Ive seen a couple built. My question right now is how do you gut one out? This is as far as I’ve gotten. Nothing else seems to be coming loose
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I think I’d grind the weld and pull it apart then reweld it if I was to do it again.curious why ?
take it apart.. think you need to heat up in a furnace
I've been eyeing that too. Talking to a guy that has a centrifuge listed for sale, but he doesn't seem too interested in selling it. So still interested in the project, and being frugal like I am, I looked into homemade options. I stumbled across a thread on steel soldiers https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/homemade-centrifuge.112814/ about using a torque converter. Sadly, I've scrapped all my old converters out because I had no use for them, otherwise I'd have the project started.
With those home made jobs, they all seemed to complain about balancing it. Looking at your cuts, I'd say you're going to have trouble with it too. IDK how fast you plan on spinning yours, but most of the electric motors I have laying around are 3000+ rpm units. Now I have little experience at this, but to spin that fast I feel you'll want to be balanced nearest to 0 that you can be.
waiting on a friend of mine to do some machine work for meHey kbenz, any updates? I just found a big torque converter on the side of the highway and snagged it up. Thinking I might copy your endeavor. I will take your advise and cut it with a lathe and reweld. I need a second fuge lol!
saw this and thought it was interetesting