For good to best results from rattle can spray paint - Use TREMCLAD Professional High Performance Rust Enamel - 3 very light coats 15 minutes apart - it should be dry enough to package in 1 hour with no runs. The trick is the 15 minutes interval. With the price of spray paint these days you should either use a brush or get a small airless sprayer and use water based paint. I just about fell over when I bought some spray paint last month - wow - that stuff inflated! Great video and great product!
Great informative comment. Thank you. I will be brush painting them after the last 2 cans of spray paint I have are used up. Yes, spray paint is expensive! 👍
Pencil-god, use your shim jig to make the body smaller toward the tail fin and fatter at the head. Sand it down for fine tuning the balance. You don't need to have the plank run all the way to the end either just enough to pin it twice. I can't get enough of your work. Back to binge watching the carpentry playlist.
A little bit of grease on the very tip of the pivot is a good idea. But too much will, I think, gunk up the sleeve the pivot shaft fits into, and that may interfere with the zephyr catching qualities of this vane. My prototype pivoted for 5 years with no lubrication beyond one application of a bit of grease. The grease was long gone after five years and the pivot was worn (as I show in my previous video), but the vane still pivoted perfectly.
I’ve watched it in high wind thunderstorms and the pole flexes back and forth some but the vane pivots into the wind quickly and offers little resistance. It gets through storms with no problem. It has never blown off.
I love that you live in upstate, I live down near Oneida and grew up around a lot of people like you, funny how that works, would be awesome if I ran into you one day!
I love the simplicity and honesty of this man! Wishing you succes... subscribing from Philippines
Love the wind vane - but love your description even better! Thank you Mr. Kimball.
For good to best results from rattle can spray paint - Use TREMCLAD Professional High Performance Rust Enamel - 3 very light coats 15 minutes apart - it should be dry enough to package in 1 hour with no runs. The trick is the 15 minutes interval. With the price of spray paint these days you should either use a brush or get a small airless sprayer and use water based paint. I just about fell over when I bought some spray paint last month - wow - that stuff inflated!
Great video and great product!
Great informative comment. Thank you. I will be brush painting them after the last 2 cans of spray paint I have are used up. Yes, spray paint is expensive! 👍
I think it might be neat to have these signed ... also making a package of 1 of each that you have on your web site. It is a nice looking site.
The idea put into prototype and sell it instead of patenting it is priceless!
Planet Whizbang web page with full details about this Wind & Weathervane: www.planetwhizbang.com/whizbangwindvane
Do you have a video on how to make the pivot assembly. I would love to make one.
Pencil-god, use your shim jig to make the body smaller toward the tail fin and fatter at the head. Sand it down for fine tuning the balance. You don't need to have the plank run all the way to the end either just enough to pin it twice. I can't get enough of your work. Back to binge watching the carpentry playlist.
Pencil-god, use your eschuteoun hack to make some bushings. Just stack them up and glue them in. Perfect bushings all day.
Where do I order one of these wind vanes
I wish I could afford one of these custom hand made unit. Good job. Do you put a little dab of grease with it? I am at 8:52 right now
A little bit of grease on the very tip of the pivot is a good idea. But too much will, I think, gunk up the sleeve the pivot shaft fits into, and that may interfere with the zephyr catching qualities of this vane. My prototype pivoted for 5 years with no lubrication beyond one application of a bit of grease. The grease was long gone after five years and the pivot was worn (as I show in my previous video), but the vane still pivoted perfectly.
How does it handle high wind speeds? I live in N. California on the coast. We sometimes have gusts up to 50 mph.
I’ve watched it in high wind thunderstorms and the pole flexes back and forth some but the vane pivots into the wind quickly and offers little resistance. It gets through storms with no problem. It has never blown off.
Very nice.
Selling them, I thought you were going to show us how to make them.
www.planetwhizbang.com/makeawindvane
too expensive..
I love that you live in upstate, I live down near Oneida and grew up around a lot of people like you, funny how that works, would be awesome if I ran into you one day!