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Anyone have any simple plans for a drying wheel? Where and what kind of used motor or new motor can I find? Even tho I'm a cheap kinda guy, I like fooling around making stuff on occasion. Thanks Pals!
Homemade Fly Tying Drying Wheel?
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Larry, I might have an old electric motor that I bought off of ebay for about ten buks. I bought several of them. One is my drying wheel, I have one for turning rod wraps. I'm pretty sure I've got another. If you can mount it to a support, fit it with a chuck and create your wheel you'd be set. I'll try to look later. Otherwise hit that auction site for an electric motor, lots of options there.
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Hey Ed, I'll give up $10 assuming it's a slow RPM. Cool. No rush. Just one of those Winter projects ya know!
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Cool. Only if you want to give it up Ed. If you need it, keep it!
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Larry, here's a picture of the wheel I made, including info on the parts. It's classic "******* engineering," but works well. If the picture doesn't show up, I posted it to the member gallery.
Hope this helps.
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Hope this helps.
Tom
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Thanks Tom. To others, I'm still looking for little motor sources and setups. More help appreciated. Ed's motor was on it's "last leg".
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I bought this motor for my dryer. Took two pieces of 1x4 dadoed a slot for the vertical piece which holds the wheel and motor. Spliced an A/C chord with a thumb on/off swith built in, and cut a 4.5 inch wheel out of foam for the wheel.
http://www.mudhole.com/Shop-Our-Catalog/Parts/Drying-Motor-for-Power-Wrapper-9-RPM
http://www.mudhole.com/Shop-Our-Catalog/Parts/Drying-Motor-for-Power-Wrapper-9-RPM
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OK. So I just finished making my own. I didn't get too fancy as I was lazy. I got the motor shipped to me including postage for $15.94. Bought a couple of washers, a bolt or two, and glued three pieces of 1/4" foam together and used a plastic lid cover for the backing. Maybe I should have bought one for $39.95, but it was fun to tinker. The motor turns at 3 RPM.
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Looks great and it is fun to tinker. Just an FYI with the wheel mounted over the base make sure you have enough clearence for some monster flies if you tie them. I had my dryer set up like yours worked great untill i tied up some larger salt wter patterns on 2/0 -4/0 hooks. They would hang up on the base while turning. Easy fix just reversed the wheel.
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that's what I did. If I can find mine, I'll dig it out. I just mounted my rotisserie to a piece of 2x4 and put a simple piece of foam (hard foam) mounted to the shaft. Works like a charm.
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Oh, BTW. I think I have about $1 into mine. Bought the motor at a garage sale for a quarter. Took a leftover piece of 2x4 and was given the foam years ago. Pretty easy.
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The advantage of the motor I bought is, it's quiet! I can't really hardly hear it run. Not even a slight hummmm. The base price was $11.95 I think. You can find them probably cheaper, which I did on one, but they wanted about $9 for shipping, so I kept searching. It is a "Mirror Ball Motor" for you old guys that remember "DISCO" fever and such...... I just need to add a switch now.
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I ordered a disco ball motor from eBay (yep - you can buy them!). $7.95 delivered. Base & etc. from scrap wood in the garage. Cut a round wheel from 3/8" plywood, or you can buy pre-cut rounds at a craft shop. I used high density weather stripping around the edge of the whee. Works great and whole thing set be back about $9.00
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Ok rookie question, I'm new to fly tying, what is the advantage to having a spinning dryer as opposed to a foam block..?1 - 20 of 22 Posts
