{"id":1485,"date":"2008-11-04T20:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2008-11-25T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:05:19","slug":"boxcab-rebuild-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Boxcab Rebuild cont&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Refitting the refit&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/boxcab1\/images\/dsc_1011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Adding flywheel to NWSL PDT\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/boxcab1\/images\/dsc_1011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/boxcab1\/images\/dsc_1009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Adding flywheel to NWSL PDT\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/boxcab1\/images\/dsc_1009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, the method I had started to use to add a flywheel to the power unit didn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 It looked cool, but the small motor used in these units is a bit limited in its power and could not drive the belt driven flywheel.\u00a0 It actually decreased performance quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was to make a post mounted to the unit into which two ball bearings were pressed.\u00a0 Pulleys would be turned on the lathe and a belt fitted to drive a flywheel pressed onto the shaft.\u00a0 After all this was made the results were disappointing, so I abandoned the idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1396.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1486\" title=\"dsc_1396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1396.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1396-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I turned a smaller flywheel and pressed it directly onto the shaft of the PDT power unit.\u00a0 Initially I did not think there would be enough clearance for this, but it actually fit quite well.<\/p>\n<p>A test run confirms that it will work very well.\u00a0 Nice slow speed performance at a consistent crawl.\u00a0 Once I add a decoder with back EMF the performance should be even better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1487\" title=\"Flywheel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1404.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1404-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1488\" title=\"Flywheel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_1400-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to figure out how to mount it to the chassis.<\/p>\n<p>On to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1540\">Next Section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refitting the refit&#8230; Well, the method I had started to use to add a flywheel to the power unit didn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 It looked cool, but the small motor used in these units is a bit limited in its power and could not drive the belt driven flywheel.\u00a0 It actually decreased performance quite a bit. 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