pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sat 4 oct 03
Hi Vince,
If they should supply me with the approximate dimensions or
some details anyway, of the kind of metal parts they may
want, I can likely make them for their Wheel project.
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vince Pitelka"
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: stand up treadle wheel
Dear friends -
At the Craft Center today I had a visit from a woman who is
interested in stand-up treadle wheels. She is looking for a
Klopenstein or Amaco or a homemade one, or the basic metal
parts and/or plans so she can build one. She and her
husband have a woodworking shop, so she can handle
everything except the metal parts.
If anyone has any information or leads, please let me know.
I will pass the information on to her.
Thanks -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Technological University
1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville TN 37166
Home - vpitelka@dtccom.net
615/597-5376
Office - wpitelka@tntech.edu
615/597-6801 x111, FAX 615/597-6803
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
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Vince Pitelka on sat 4 oct 03
Dear friends -=20
At the Craft Center today I had a visit from a woman who is interested =
in stand-up treadle wheels. She is looking for a Klopenstein or Amaco =
or a homemade one, or the basic metal parts and/or plans so she can =
build one. She and her husband have a woodworking shop, so she can =
handle everything except the metal parts. =20
If anyone has any information or leads, please let me know. I will pass =
the information on to her.
Thanks -=20
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Technological University
1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville TN 37166
Home - vpitelka@dtccom.net
615/597-5376
Office - wpitelka@tntech.edu
615/597-6801 x111, FAX 615/597-6803
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
piedpotterhamelin@COMCAST.NET on sun 5 oct 03
Vince,
The stand up treadle that I built years ago from one inch rod utilized two steel blocks, drilled out with a centered distance of four and a half or so inches to make top and bottom horizontal arms of the pitman. This allows to slip a bearing over this short parallel shaft of about 3 inches or so; this bearing being one end of the pitman arm. This arm can vary in length and can be mortised and pinned into a longer two by four that is anchored to a beam onthe frame, the free end you kick. The flywheel was about three feet in diameter, full plywood bottom and having beveled and straight two by fours on edge encasing the circumferance. I permanently attached two area on the top and lidded the two open sides to adjustthe weight, filled the flywheel with sand and kicked this wonderful wheel for a long time.
I plan to reinstall this old wheel of mine in my new studio this spring when we move in.
I hope that the cold holds off here in Massachusetts, the building goes up Oct 13 and I still must roof and side it.
Stay happy
--
"Many a wiser men than I hath
gone to pot." 1649
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