{"id":1528,"date":"2013-02-21T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2013-02-21T20:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:35:13","slug":"snagged-a-new-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/snagged-a-new-wheel.html","title":{"rendered":"Snagged a new wheel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I managed to get my hands on a used wheel, cheap. It is a gigantic banding wheel: wheel head is 50cm across and the whole thing assembled weighs 60kg. It looks like it might have been someone’s homemade wheel, made from acquired parts and put together.<\/p>\n

It is an oddly constructed wheel, no bearings at all. The top of the shaft accommodates\u00a0 a pin in the wheel head like my kickwheel, but there is no bearing in the bottom, just tapered sleeve on the shaft that engages the bottom of the wheelhead shaft, heavily greased. It requires a very fine setting of the tapered sleeve. Engage it too much and the wheel doesn’t turn well, not enough and there is a waggle in the wheel.<\/p>\n

It arrived pretty rusty and dirty, looks like it saw a lot of use at some point, then got left in a corner somewhere for a few years. I got a wire brush disc for my angle grinder and spent quite a while getting the accumulation of clay, gunk, paint, and rust off.<\/p>\n

\"Removable<\/a>
Removable wheel head shaft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Base<\/a>
Base shaft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"wheel<\/a>
wheel head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"tapered<\/a>
tapered sleeve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The whole shebang, still dirty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"wheel<\/a>
wheel head assembly oiled and ready.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally got the wheel head assembly cleaned up and oiled, and with some experimentation found the ‘sweet spot’ for the tapered sleeve when engaging the wheel head shaft, and the wheel spins quite nicely. Click on the link below to see it spin:
\nWheel spin test<\/a><\/p>\n

My plan for this wheel is to weld arms to the base of the wheel head shaft and mount a wooden fly wheel, and add a wooden wheel head onto the current steel wheel head. The resulting kickwheel should be great for onggi style coil and paddle work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I managed to get my hands on a used wheel, cheap. It is a gigantic banding wheel: wheel head is 50cm across and the whole thing assembled weighs 60kg. It looks like it might have been someone’s homemade wheel, made from acquired parts and put together. It is an oddly constructed wheel, no bearings at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,43],"tags":[145,5,35,120,22,31,143,14,74],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kickwheel","category-tools","tag-clay","tag-karatsu","tag-karatsupots","tag-kick-wheel","tag-pottery-2","tag-wood","tag-wood-kiln","tag-14","tag-74"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-oE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}