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You need to cut the welds with a whizz wheel most of the way thru, but not quite all the way. Then cluck one in a vise and wack the cut one with a hammer to break it off, and still have weld to clean up on the shaft. Same thing on the other blade, but cucking the shaft will be harder to do, if the plan is save the shaft at all.
What is the black round thing? lower left in the pic?
What is the larger circle part with the top blade going thru a slot in the upper part of the pic and a straight edge lower in the pic? This heavy part appears to be one with the blade shaft. The shaft is going into a gear drive. Will that gear drive be saved for the wind mill?
What converter will be used to convert ACV to DCV? Or will you use a rectifier/regulator to sink away AC current, to take DC current?
What DCV voltage are you aiming for? 12 dcv or 24 dcv?
This is a AC motor, but what current does it run on? 120 acv, or 220 acv?
I hope you have good air tools to get the whizz wheel up to cutting speed. You will need some serious tooling for this project. The dremel might whizz wheel this, but it will take more time and many wheels with the fiber board check pattern to make a dent in that weld. That weld is going to be real rugged.
I of course have never done this, so I won't 'just know' lots of stuff.
I almost wonder if leaving the blades on as a fly wheel might be a better idea.
Silvertips will be along and have more questions probably. Listen to what he says too.
I'm not sure if I'll be keeping any of the gear box, it would mean that I would need to windmill to rotate more times to get the motor to turn once (everything is now running backwards on the motor to have the motor supply power instead of take power). I think I will need to weld a new shaft onto the main shaft/gear, whatever is in there. The black round thing is my light base, lol. I'm sure this will give me 24dcv. I'll use a bridge rectifier, or maybe a charge controller(and likely both), not that far yet lol. It runs on 110, or (120).
Testing the power being generated by the motor, just hook up you leads from DVOM to the motors 2 wires, (these wires are now the power output, once in a windmill) spin the shaft and it will give you a general reading (not super accurate but an idea).
ohhh man! just break loose with some money and buy something! Your gonna chop somebody into to dogmeat with that thing!!!!!Be flipping careful if you get that deal spinning!!!!!!
By the way the motor is out of a Flowtron CS 3500 chipper/shredder. I can't find much on it online. it is a 12A 5HP.
And right now the motor shaft/gear doesn't want to come out of the gearbox. Time for a beer.
LOL my54ford, it isn't hooked up to power and I took the blades out already. What you see in the pic is the blade holder and weights to help it chop and shred. It has no threat left in it. Thank you fopr the concern though. Not the average hillbilly here, lol.
Plus if I were to buy one I would be looking at a couple hundred and I got this for free. Wasn't expecting a gearbox that wants to be a pain though.
ha, okay, I'll let ya know when I get the shaft off what the gear ratio is. Can't spin it free hand now.
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