Re: [TCML] Treadmill Motor Question

[David <drieben@xxxxxxx>]

Adam, 

I'm out of pocket as far as getting to it to look at it today but the shaft looked to be 1/2" diameter with a pretty course left hand thread - about the same as those on the end shafts of a typical bench grinder. I ended up putting the wheel back on mine as the flywheel also acts as the cooling fan and the motor guts get warm pretty fast when ran without the wheel in place. Looks like drilling and tapping my wheel would be pretty dicey as there are an odd 13 veins to circulate cooling air to the motor. Makes mapping out evenly spaced "pie cut" lines to located drill points quite challenging for my very limited machining skills :-( 

David

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On Sep 8, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David,
> Did you ever do anything with your treadmill motor? Looking at mine, I think I could easily drill and tap the "fan/balancer", to attach my rotary disk. I haven't unscrewed mine yet, as you did. What size is the shaft?
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