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generator maintenance
A couple of rainy nights ago my recently purchased Tung Lin
bottle generator failed me. It had been faithfully working in whatever wet weather nature could throw at it. It turns out the drive wheel was just plastic (it looked like blued steel), and it had worn smooth. I had learned that where there's friction between two moving parts, there should be a fair difference in hardness between the parts, to minimize wear. I guess there's not enough of such a difference in hardness between a plastic drivewheel and a rubber tire. So I set about to put a metal drivewheel on it, from one of my old Union units. I found a good match, but the top of it was too thick -- there wasn't enough spindle coming out the top, on which to thread the retaining nut. So I countersunk the inside of the drivewheel, dug out the old Foredom flexible shaft, chucked-in a rotary file and flattened the countersink. After all that, it fit like the original. What a lot of work for a $25, almost-new generator. But it's working beautifully again. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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Mike Latondresse wrote:
No it's not, it is an experience. Life is NOT a dry run. It is an experience. Ken Winnipeg, Canada |
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