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zip22
09-08-05, 11:25 PM
http://www.munkeyworks.com/blarg.html

crazy, must be very hard to steer.


FireTeamCharlie
09-09-05, 01:19 PM
Cool, but I dont think a drill would have have the power to take somene up hill.

Hal Hardy
09-09-05, 09:50 PM
"The flexing of the brace also makes an automatic
transmission. As the drill spins faster the chain
jumps to larger chain rings."

I wonder if he built it to flex on purpose knowing it would jump cogs or if it was a surprise and he thought, "Cool, an auto tranny."


Alloy Addict
09-10-05, 07:43 AM
I hope he has a lot of cordless drills laying around. I think he's going to be going through a few.

FlatTop
09-11-05, 08:53 AM
I wonder how a car starter motor and a motorcycle 12 volt battery would work? Starters have excellent torque, and the new compact ones using rare-earth magnets and reduction gears are pretty small. It might be a good "hillclimber" motor.

cuda2k
09-11-05, 10:59 AM
I wonder how a car starter motor and a motorcycle 12 volt battery would work? Starters have excellent torque, and the new compact ones using rare-earth magnets and reduction gears are pretty small. It might be a good "hillclimber" motor.

Starters are meant to be run for a few seconds at a time, not continually for minutes (let alone hours) on end. In grade school, I was part of a project that attempted to use a starter motor to move a small wooden go-cart kind of thing. We melted 5 starters within 3 days of building.

jeff-o
09-13-05, 12:03 PM
The best electric motor for a bike is still the hub motor. Nothing that I have found matches the performance/size of a hub motor.