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Posted by z on February 13, 2008, 8:55 pm
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>>>> wmbjkREMOVE@citlink.net wrote in
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>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:46:59 -0600, "Don Young"
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>>>>>>Someone with a lathe capable of metric threading
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>>>>> 20tpi will work well.
>>>>>
>>>>>>could whip out an adapter
>>>>>>for you real easily. Or an adapter could be built up with one or
>>>>>>more nuts for the threaded section. The latter would be more
>>>>>>difficult to make run true.
>>>>>
>>>>> The adapter should be a tight fit on the plain (true) part of the
>>>>> shaft. Easiest way to make a threaded version might be to turn a
>>>>> bushing with a threaded end, weld on a stub, then turn the stub
>>>>> true. But I think the threads could be eliminated in favor of
>>>>> press fit, loctite, or set screws.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne
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>>>> Thanks a lot for the advice (should have asked here before starting
>>>> this dang thing) drilling and tapping the coupler did the trick.
>>>> Stable at 1000 RPM!!!
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>>>> update: http://www.jeffersonfreestate.org/hh/
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>>> Looking at the pictures, it looks like you are using a corrugated
>>> copper connecting line to run the water in to the jets. You would
>>> probably be better off to use soft copper tubing for this to avoid
>>> the turbulance the corrugations will produce.
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>> Yeah I might swap that out, but those were handy and had the
>> fittings. I could probably just move to that clear poly but I don't
>> have the fittings for doing that on hand.
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>> I need to do some other stuff first.
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>>> Any idea how much current you are getting?
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>> Right around 12 volts .. I think my multi-meter is messed up because
>> It won't read amps at the moment, its always zero. But I hooked a
>> dead car battery up and it from round 4 volts to 7.5 after 10 mins of
>> running or so. I don't want to run it longer until I pipe in a place
>> for the excess water to go .. back down the hill into the stream.
>> Its been fine for testing but when you run it for a while that water
>> needs a place to go!
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>> Once again that was a detail I didn't want to bother with till I
>> thought the generator part would actually work.
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> If the meter won't read amps, it is probably because a fuse is blown.
> Unless your meter has an unusually high amp scale, it will probably
> quickly blow the fuse with this kind of a generator.
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Yup. That fuse is blown for sure. This was one of those cheapo multi-
meters I got from radio-shack years ago. Suppose I should invest in a
better one.
> What was the RPM when the dead battery was chargeing? Did it slow a
> lot?
Maybe some. It sounded differently though .. ran a lot smoother.
I have to go to town tomorrow so maybe i'll try to find a beefier multi-
meter
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> Bob F
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