Wheels for drill-gearboxes?

[daveimi]

Yeah that's the meat and taters of it. There is a YouTube video from John findlay showing how to build a budget feather. In it, he puts a bolt through a wheel and then just traps the bolt in the chuck of the drill. This is how I've done it for ages and it works spot on. I've never put a pic up of it in my thread for fear of being laughed at! At events no one noticed either lol.

There are some tricks to doing it though u need to know if u go down that route.

[lowndsy]

Has anyone ever seen these in imperial sizes (like, say, 3/8 unf...)?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M8-Threade...EAAOSwMgdX1bYd

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[R9000]

I've been looking hard for them, for wheels. This is the closest I found: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1621813832...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[lowndsy]

Ooh, shame they aren't ridged to stop them trying to spin round, but they could still work, thanks.

[R9000]

Nothing to stop you scoring them with a grinder or a file and then ramming them into an undersized hole in the wheel.

[MattLampitt]

For a very quick drive system with wheels mounted to the 3/8" unf thread that comes out the gearbox...

I melt these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/191818584715

into these wheels:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/270510822899

then put the reverse threaded bolt in the other side. Works awesome.
can even put a 3/8 unf bolt out the other side to go into a bush or bearing so there is no side loading on gearbox if you want.