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Re: pic: Low budget wheels

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Originally Posted by Ianworld
My team while we have some aluminum wheels waiting to be mounted tomorrow have been using effectivly wooden wheels. They're really easy to make. You take a 1 inch thick pieces of squarish plywood and drill rough centers(1/4" for simplicity) exactly the radius you want from one side in them. Then you take another piece of wood and drill a 1/4" hole in it. Stick a bolt through your rough center and this other piece of wood and clamp the second piece of wood to bandsaw so that the edge of your 1 inch thick plywood sits flush against the bandsaw blade. Then just turn the bandsaw on and twirl the plywood around the bolt you put through it. Makes a roughly circular wheel.
You can use a similar method by bolting a router to the end of the board for perfectly round wheels, I have seen it used to great effect.
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