Chris H
Senior Member
One of the items on this winters squawk list was to rebuild the generator. As things turned out, I caught it just in time, as the front bearing was completely missing one ball, and the cage was a mess.
The rebuild went well, and I wanted to test it before installing on the car. I was trying to think of some kind of test fixture that would not end up costing a lot of money, hopefully using something I already had.
As a wood worker, why not use something that had everything I needed to do the job. My wood lathe, with variable speed, enough horsepower, and adjustability. I just built a mount to attach the generator to the tool rest. Used my 1/2 Jacobs chuck to hold a 1/2" bolt with a 3" belt shive. I used the live center to keep the chuck-belt pully in place as shown.
It works great. Most likely someone has already done this before, but I have not seen it.
The rebuild went well, and I wanted to test it before installing on the car. I was trying to think of some kind of test fixture that would not end up costing a lot of money, hopefully using something I already had.
As a wood worker, why not use something that had everything I needed to do the job. My wood lathe, with variable speed, enough horsepower, and adjustability. I just built a mount to attach the generator to the tool rest. Used my 1/2 Jacobs chuck to hold a 1/2" bolt with a 3" belt shive. I used the live center to keep the chuck-belt pully in place as shown.
It works great. Most likely someone has already done this before, but I have not seen it.
