pic: 4 Inch Wheel Design

[MWB]

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[RyanS]

Looks nice. Are you planning to broach the center with a hex or key? If so you might consider indexing the broach so that the "halves" broaches line up. This would allow the halves to be truly interchangeable.

[Rion Atkinson]

Originally Posted by RyanS

Looks nice. Are you planning to broach the center with a hex or key? If so you might consider indexing the broach so that the "halves" broaches line up. This would allow the halves to be truly interchangeable.

Looks nice to me. ^_^ Course... I'm not the mechanical genus... My questions are only about the CAD program. Which one are you using?

Also, do you think you could get away with fewer spokes?

-Rion

[MWB]

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

Looks nice to me. ^_^ Course... I'm not the mechanical genus... My questions are only about the CAD program. Which one are you using?

Also, do you think you could get away with fewer spokes?

-Rion

I am using Solidworks 2009

Yes, i could but i liked the look of 10 versus 6 spokes for some reason.

Originally Posted by RyanS

Looks nice. Are you planning to broach the center with a hex or key? If so you might consider indexing the broach so that the "halves" broaches line up. This would allow the halves to be truly interchangeable.

Yes since my upload i have added the hex broach and the halves line up perfectly. The purpose was to have the halves be interchangeable.

[R.C.]

Nice Wheel,

How much does it weigh with bolts?

-RC

[MWB]

Originally Posted by R.C.

Nice Wheel,

How much does it weigh with bolts?

-RC

0.42lbs With bolts

0.36lbs Without bolts

[Eugene Fang]

Nice! looks kinda familiar! Haha =)



I see you're going "clamp style" for tread, but you need a little groove along your rim that captures the tread so it doesn't fall out (higher quality picture here where you can see the groove better http://604robotics.com/Blog/wp-conte...2/IMG_0296.jpg). I like how you made both halves symmetrical for ease of machining, however, what we do is make them asymmetrical so you can have a locating groove instead of using the screws/axle to center the two halves.

Also, you might be able to get away with less spokes. 7 is a cool number.

Keep up the great work!

[MWB]

Originally Posted by R.C.

Nice Wheel,

How much does it weigh with bolts?

-RC

Is there any chance that you have the AM Shifter Gen 2 CADDED with the gear teeth? If you do can you send it to me?

Thanks RC

[sanddrag]

My my that looks mighty familiar. I too wonder about your plans for the bore, and the necessity for symmetrical halves. You might consider not having the bore extend through both halves. Timing/indexing a broach is a pain. Also, you may find it not worth it to have the wheel be two halves at all, if simplifying manufacturing is your goal.

[MWB]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

My my that looks mighty familiar. I too wonder about your plans for the bore, and the necessity for symmetrical halves. You might consider not having the bore extend through both halves. Timing/indexing a broach is a pain. Also, you may find it not worth it to have the wheel be two halves at all, if simplifying manufacturing is your goal.

Well i was thinking of broaching it while it was assembled or just simply keying it. The two halves is so that you can clamp the tread along with rivits for a better grip.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by MWB

Well i was thinking of broaching it while it was assembled or just simply keying it. The two halves is so that you can clamp the tread along with rivits for a better grip.

There's really no point to making a two piece wheel without having the undercut groove to capture the tread. It won't be any different than a one piece wheel without it.

[MWB]

Originally Posted by Cory

There's really no point to making a two piece wheel without having the undercut groove to capture the tread. It won't be any different than a one piece wheel without it.

Yeah i know ive added it since i just forgot to do it when i took that picture. Thanks Cory

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Someone explain to me why, in this day and age, anyone would bother making custom wheels.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

Someone explain to me why, in this day and age, anyone would bother making custom wheels.

Because they're cool! Although I have to say AM Performance wheels are really good, especially their price. You could get custom wheels about 40% lighter though. If that matters.

http://www.andymark.biz/am-0393.html

[Cory]

Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

Someone explain to me why, in this day and age, anyone would bother making custom wheels.

Because we would have spent $1800+shipping to buy AndyMark Performance Wheels this year...and once we got them we would have had to do secondary machining on them anyways.

Instead we made our own for $300 plus ~20 hours of my time.