Projects Giant speedster project

NOW, you tell me!

Jerry

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Wheelcovers

I got the wooden form mounted on my front wheel drive hub with the aluminum disc on it, in the drill press. I spun it up to speed and it's kind of scary, probably fly off and eviscerate me. Interesting. I'll keep the cell phone close. I left my camera at the shop so no pictures tonight. Picture the whole thing as some kind of horizontal lathe. My drill press is a monster. It looks more like a milling machine. The good news is I only need to deflect the aluminum about 2 inches. How hard can that be? Results tomorrow.

Jerry
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You'd better hope the glue joints are all good in that buck! That's a lot of mass spinning around there.

 

Eviscerate. Gawd, what a great word!

You know, if you do a forum search here for the word "eviscerate" it finds two threads. Yeah, I know. That was one more than I was expecting too!

 

I got faith in ya'!

 

Good luck don't get eviscerated, this build is too good!

 

you could always clamp a band of steel around the edge, or shrink a band like used to be done on wagon wheels.

 

Lessons on metal spinning

Ah, the lessons you can learn when you dive into a new discipline. After I got the disc mounted I set about making my spinning stick--that's a technical term. The lower wheel from my English wheel looked about right. A suitable holder wasn't too hard to make which I mounted to the handle off my floor jack. With spinning stick in hand I girded my loins for the task ahead. Following a thorough girding, I spun up the drill press and leaned into the disc. Amazingly the metal actually started taking shape. A few leanings later I realized something important I hadn't foreseen. Because my disc had a hard edge, the more I stretched the inner part of the disc the more the outer part wanted to curl up. My form, I realized, should been a bowl or negative of the shape I wanted. Then I could have secured the perimeter of the disc and stretched the center into the bowl. With that in mind, I secured part of a 24" rim to the turntable and mounted the disc. I had no form to work with but what the hell. The piece didn't actually come out half bad. But without a pattern, the problem is making 3 more of uniform shape. I hate to go through all that work of making another pattern.

Jerry
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Spinning

Here's some pictures of the wheel cover in place. The rim needs an adjustment to the bolts and wheel locks. Also I need to make up the hubcap stuff that will hold the wheelcover in place.

Jerry

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You could bake a pizza on one of those. Ha!

 

Way cool...now you need some kind of crest/badge/emblem thingy to bolt in the middle and hide all the ugly mounting thangs.

 

Was that a pizza pan you started with?

 

Don't let it disembowel, dismember or eviscerate you. Could a wider rolling wheel work on your stick, to stop the curl-up? The one looks good, and if they are the same fore-and-aft but a little different left-to-right, no one will notice.

Also there is indeed a 24" pizza size, often called UFO, so an aluminum pizza pan that size might be a good starting point? Probably not as good as yours but maybe more uniform.

 

I agree the look like pizza pans, they need a step or two some where to break up the look

 

Thats really bad ass! I got a neighbor thats a metal spinner by trade. Real cool stuff

 

Hah, I was waiting for someone to discover the pizza pan secret! The cat is out of the bag. 24" $24.00 The beaded edge is perfect. The early wheelcovers are all smooth as far as I can tell. Steps came later.

Jerry
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up nort here in the sno country (yesterday)we have whats's call sno-saucers they are a disc like you made and they are a types of snow-sled for kids ... come in many sizes ...suppose your local toy store does not carry many winter toys..

disc you made is just fine hope the others match.. heheh some true speedsters would have "pants" on the back side of the rims too

......waiting for the girded loin video....

 

How about having them on inverted?

 

No progress on the Seagrave. Yesterday I worked on the Chevy Aveo putting the new valves in and installing the head. I stopped because I needed a special 41mm crows foot to tension the timing belt. Today was my son's big Hap Ki Do tournament so no progress on the Aveo or Seagrave and no martial arts medals either. Tomorrow, I finish up the Aveo. Maybe with the better mileage I'll have a few more bucks in my pocket to spend on the Seagrave.

Jerry
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Misc.

Today I finished up the Aveo and it's on the road. I also managed to completely finish one wheelcover as you can see in the picture.

Jerry
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Great wheelcover. Particularly like the "flipper bar" in the center.

 

Jerry, my upstairs neighbor has an Aveo. Before you start driving it, take all the wheels off and put a little never-seize on the hub/rim mating surface. The galvanic corrosion is particularly horrible, and there's a groove on the hub or rim that essentially fills up with rust and locks it on. She called AAA roadside service to change a flat tire. They were going to have to tow it because the guy couldn't get it off. Plenty of pb blaster and even more muscle took it off, but it took me about 45 minutes.
Other than that, it doesn't seem to give her any problems.

This is assuming you have the alloy rims...

 

Thanks for the tip. Down here in the south we don't get much of that--no corrosion, no rust. Maybe from lack of salt on the roads or in the air. Tell your friends to change the timing belt and all the peripherals right on time. The idlers lock up, the belt breaks and the valves all bend. $350 worth of parts if you do it yourself, $1200 min. at a shop.

Jerry

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ahaaaaah ripple disc ... you do read my posts...

oscar will be roofless

 

Agreed!

 

With those wheel covers in use .....you will have some good sized echo cans for use on the aveo......

Realisticly they could be used on the inner side of the wheels

 

More Wheelcover

The Seagrave is still over at Oscar's and with nothing in my shop I thought I'd take advantage of the extra space. I'm not happy with the wheelcover I made. I want each wheelcover to be uniform. So back to the lumber yard for some more 2 X 4's. I cut them into lengths, glued them and put them in the press. I took pictures of all this but for some reason only one of the pictures is in my camera. Tomorrow, I'm going to try and build a jig to shape the wood into a sort of bowl using my router. I think it'll be faster than Don's pattern mill. We'll see.

Jerry
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two more bucks/patterns and you will have some smokin wood wheels

 

what about attaching your pattern onto the wheel of the seagrave and using it as a wood lathe?

 

Now that's an idea. Engine roaring, wheel spinning, chips flying... I'd be cooler than the guy with the chainsaw who carves bears!
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