Red wagon pedal car

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Thank you, sir!

I was all excited to get the axles really going, but we had a pretty bad storm on Thursday & part of the fallout was that the bearing shop I went to didn't have any power...which means the credit card machine didn't work. Hopefully they're up & running on Monday or Tuesday. That way I can see how high it'll be with the front axle on & determine how much drop to build into the rear axle.

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-Chaz

 

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coast to drive conversion

I finished up my spokes & got one of my coast wheels converted to a drive wheel before being called in last night.

Hopefully I can get the other taken care of tonight & start working on where I'm going to mount the front axle.

-Chaz

 

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I finished up my spokes & got one of my coast wheels converted to a drive wheel before being called in last night.

Hopefully I can get the other taken care of tonight & start working on where I'm going to mount the front axle.

-Chaz

I see what you did there...

 

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Neither the first, nor the last

My axle stock is hot rolled & therefore is slightly larger than it's advertised 5/8". Since the bearings in the pillow blocks are precision machined, I had to do some ghetto machining. The first pic is of my success with my redneck lathe (and wishing I had a real one along with the skills to use it).

Then, I did a rough mockup on the bench & mounted the pan to the frame using the original hardware.

Then I transferred it to the floor & tried out some mounting locations for the axle. It's surprisingly long & I had to sit forward in the pan & move the axle back to make sure I could reach the virtual pedals & not too far back so that my feet wouldn't hit the pan.

With the mounting location for the front axle pretty firm I put it back on the table & converted the second wheel from coast to drive.

I grabbed the parts that I need to get mounted when I left this morning. Hopefully the farm store on my way home has all the different hardware I need.

-Chaz