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Build a old fashioned rotary flywheel Pottery Kickwheel for about 100$ After a lot of searching on the internt, I could not find a decent drawin...
Using standard dimensional lumber (2x4) the build begins with the back and floor frame.
adding the front frame and the seat supports
the adjustabel seat is made of 2 (or 3) 2x4's attached with 7 inch peices of 2x4
additiional peices are attached to the frame.
drawing the 31.5 inch disks from a peice of 8x4 plywood. this is a cheap trick, fit you have a center hole drilled, just poke a hole in a peice of ...
you will need to cut 2 31.5 inch disks from plywood. save all the scrap (see measured drawing) use a circular saw to split the plywood into 2 4x4 s...
you should have 2 flywheel dosks and 4 half moon shaped peices of plywood. (only one shown) drill a 1 in hole on the center of the disks, and attach...
using constuction adhesive, glue the bricks t the bottom flywheel disks.
using more constuction adhesive, glue the top of the flywheel down and weight down. imusing a 1 inch hoe handle to aligh the disks while they are dry...
after temprarily removing the base boards, the flang bearing is attached to the flywheel with a 3 inch pipe nipple.
the flywheel is slid into place and secured with screws
the wheel head shaft is a peice of 29 inch galvanized pipe. the 1 5/.16 pillow block is driven on, and secured with a top frame support
more freame peices are cut, the leftover plywood is fit into place to secure the console. the wheel head is another 10 inch disk cut from the same s...
A very tired moose relaxes with his new construction nothing left but painting...
this is a set of ikea style measued drawing and material list. if you have any questions ytou can contact me on facebook at Moosestudiospottery
the following include the build drawings.
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I saw a similar plan set right after college and had a copy of them but never got around to building my own kick wheel.
The other plans I saw called for pouring cement into a form which sounded very difficult but do-able. I like yours much better using pavers. you could even get round pavers or edgers and get more weight.
You could even glue down old sandpaper down on the top disk to give some grip to the kick wheel.....
LOVE the set of measured drawings!!! Very clear and will be very useful!
Over all a wonderful instrucable!
(now where to find clay?........)
if you have to have clay shipped- it will be expensive, plan to buy in 1 ton (1 pallette) lots to save on shipping. If you dont want that much clay, find a club in your area, to split the cost-- if there isnt one, why its high time for sombosy to start one...
suppliers of clay are:
www.clay-king.com (best bet, loafer;'s glory, a white burning semi poceline clay)
www.bigceramicstore.com they carry everything
www.arrdvark.com I very much like thier Navaho white, but Bee mix is popluar too.
Lagua run through a distribution networlk of vendors, call them to get a dist in you area. they have a nuber oif very fine clays in all sorts of colours.
(I use Amadore, Electric Brown, Redstone, Big white and Dave's porceline from thier line)
worse come to worse, you can alway grab a shovel and a bucket and do it the hard way... (ahh, snakes, very dangerous-you go first)
seriouly, I pay about 25$ per hundred for my studio clay delivered... and Have been using Aarvark's Navaho white almost exclusivly...
I've also seen a primitive one where they use a wine bottle (with a concave bottom) buried topside down in the ground as a socket for the bottom of a wooden shaft. The upper bearing consisted of a piece of greased leather wrapped around the shaft to hold it next to a support. the kick plate was of wooden slabs fastened criss cross like a cart wheel and the top disk was also of wood.
and that goes for the wedg9ing table as well...