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Re: Who makes their own wheels?

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We cut an aluminum hub that was .25" thick and of 6" diameter iirc. We added .25" steel rings with matching OD and 5.75" ID, sandwiching the aluminum hub. The assembly had considerable mass, but the mass was where we wanted it to maximize moment of inertia.
Uploaded a video of another flywheel I build for a physics project with the method I outlined previously. Might help make sense of my garbled description.

https://youtu.be/XKjixa894uU
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