Message #1025

[Taogem]

I am still working on getting my felt wheel on to the shaft of an electric motor.

I think may be able to simply attach some kind of cone shaped spindle. I saw one at Ralphs house. It slipped over the shaft and had some allen screws that held it in place on the shaft. I am thinking that I can simply snug up the felt wheel onto the cone part of the spindle.

Is that what I am thinking of? Are they called spindles, and might that be an easy way to adapt the felt wheel? I took the electric motor to a shop, but they could not promise a perfectly straight threaded hole down the end of the shaft so as to be able to bolt some type of assembly on the end of the shaft to hold the felt wheel in place.

Anxious to give the Zam I picked up a try!