Sunday work

  Sunday started with some more work on the hub.  Essentially I had to draw out the arms of the spokes, straighten them in a perfect "X" and punch the hole for the arbor.  Finally, I had to create small tenons to connect into the outer part of the Crown Wheel.  Not much here to show that I haven't shown before.  This picture is just prior to forming the tenons.

Next, on the crown wheel I had to punch the holes for those tenons on the spokes.  I messed one of these (made it too big) but was able recover from it.  The really difficult part here was to force the spokes into wheel.  This really took a lot of muscle, hammering, clamps, etc...  to get it into place.  In the process, the wheel became slightly distorted.  I think I can do some corrective action.  Hopefully the wheel is still in good shape.  This picture shows the spokes in the wheel.



Finally, some pictures of the nearly complete wheel in the frame.





The main problem with the wheel is that the arbor is not perfectly perpendicular to the wheel.  This causes a wobble when the wheel is spun.  With my experience of the great gear, I know I can correct this to some degree.  Hopefully it will be enough.

Even if this wheel does not work out (I hope that it does!), the important thing for me to remember is that I created this in under two days.  If you look back in my blog, when I first attempted the great wheel, that was over several months.  My experience level is getting to the point where I am much faster, more confident, blah, blah, blah...  :)  I will beat this project yet...