How To Make Wooden Wheels With Bicycle Rims And Tyres
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Wooden wheels cost a fortune to buy - but I found an easy way of making them for almost nothing. Apart from a bit of fiddly woodwork, there is a major challenge that needs overcoming for a wheelmaker - how to attach a rubber tyre. (You could in theory not bother, but everyone would hear you coming from miles away.) A rubber tyre (whether hollow or not) needs a channel to sit in, so the rim needs to be made of channel-section steel or aluminium - and that’s probably impossible to make without quite a big ring-roller.
So, I looked again at the bicycle wheel and tyre combination - and really it’s very impressive. Light and strong and cheap. But there’s a problem with the axle - it’s designed to be supported at both ends, and it will bend if you don’t. So if you’re making go carts or carriages bike wheels don’t really work. Replacing the spindle requires replacing the entire hub - which means the spokes too. So you may as well start from scratch. Which is what I’ve done.
Perhaps the key to getting these wheels tight and strong is making an accurate drawing in the first place. That way you can make all the parts accurately too, just by copying the drawing. In this case there are 8 spokes per wheel and 8 pieces that fit between them and 8 more felloes - 24 pieces, plus the hub. I made 4 wheels - so it was well worth my time to make two good templates / patterns at the start and use them to make all the 96 parts quickly and accurately.
(I looked at different numbers of spokes - and they changed the appearance of the wheel a lot. An odd number probably looks best, but I settled with 8 for simplicity.)
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Lucky me. I go searching on how to make a wooden wheel, and I find a video by one of my favorite and the most wholesome channel I'm subscribed to. :)
Wow, thanks!
Thats a CAN BE BOTHERED man. Oh what a lovely relaxing 1970s voice, I do believe that has been one of my favorite experiences watching a how do youtube vid, thank you so much !:)
I subscribe to your channel strictly for the sound of your voice which in my humble opinion is the most enchanting storytelling, beautiful voice, which I've ever heard in my entire life! You ought to try to narrate audiobooks, especially children's books, your a natural!!!
Aw, thanks!
I agree. Tim has such a lovely voice.
Absolutely brilliant, what innovation and craftmanship! Thanks so much.
I watched this and smiled. You have a very unique way of looking at things and that is a very good thing in itself. I would have never of dreamed of repurposing a bicycle rim in that manner. Good job and great work.
Nice work and YES this did help me out. Thank you for posting it. And you are easy to listen to without dragging it out. Thanks!
joseph lamperth I'm pleased to hear it!
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This project is very cool. I'm looking to stiffen and reinforce my electric hub wheel for my trike, and you've given me inspiration.
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Sir, I have watched many, many of your videos and I am left in awe at your resourcefulness. This video is a great example. Thank you for posting all these wonderful videos for people like me to vicariously live life in the country!
+Augustus Sohn Thank you - we appreciate your feedback. It's fun to make the videos but they are a lot of work so it's good to know so many people seem to like them. Just wish we had more time in the day to get more done : - )
I come back & watch this video now & then. It always makes me smile, combining old with new, what a fun idea! :D
creativeobsin
Yes? what is it? :3
They look great! Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for videos! You give me new ideas, I will use them in my farm. Greetings from Hungary.
Tim! I need that hole thingy!! I'm off online shopping now - and love the wheel, but of course, loved seeing you doing some wood whirling on the lathe most of all! Claire x
That is an awesome idea, I have a couple of retired bikes from my kids and need a couple of carts for moving beehive components around the workshop. It is probably simpler to buy a cart but I do like making my own gear.
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+David Dunne Thank you David! Good luck with your project (share a video, maybe?)
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Fantastic video! Exactly what i needed to move one of my projects forward. Thank you for posting your video.
That is just brilliant, fabulous job old chap.
thanks for a great idea for my similar problem. very nice step by step instructions
Awesome idea using the bike rims! Very nice job! Thanks for the great idea!
Your honesty added so much to the presentation. Warts and all as they say. Very compelling, you have yet another follower. Thanks from Northern Ontario, Canada.
Mike
+Mike Lamothe cheers Mike, welcome aboard
I do wish I might have seen this a few years back when we were commissioned to make a set of wheels for a cannon from 1898. Myself and Russ Radford, now passed took a winter from start to finish. We had very little left of the originals to go from. It was great sport. Once the snow decides to leave I will post a picture or two.
what a glorious set of videos... I'm not sure how I found my way here, but I think I'll stay. Subscribed and can't wait to watch more. Thank you for sharing! :)
Gareth Crispin Cheers Gareth - good to have you on board!
We had metal wheels on our cart. To stop the noise when we collected our messages in Stromness, all we could do at the time was attach old rope we had picked up off the beach. When you say an easy way... I see a lot of hard work, but the end result looks amazing. Thank you for sharing.
A fantastic tutorial ! I have a funeral carriage to build before Oct and this is going to save me a lot of work.
Thanks. (Did you see my hearse build?)
No but Ill go look for it for sure.
You are amazing. What a beautiful piece of art.
love your clear voice great demo
Excellent work
It doesn't take genius but rather just a strong will to do the job right.
A simple like doesn't do enough justice to this great video!
As always, you make me smile with your ingenuity.
I'm going to make wheels same way as you did, but it will be for my wooden bandsaw, besides measuring the concave of the wheel with a pizza cutter is just genious, thank you for the inspiration
+Lefay Modron Angus Thanks Lefay - that's a good idea. Good luck!
I just watched this video.............You Sir are a master craftsman .......Digger
+robert k Aw thanks, Robert. Not really, but I really enjoy it all : - )
well done sir . very fun to watch . cheers
Hello from Canada. Magnificent. Please keep us updated on your project.
OUTSTANDING !!! Excellent Job Well Done Sir!
Absolutely brilliant and nicely done video.
I am enchanted and so impressed with such clever, imaginative engineering prowess.
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i like the logic in your solution.. well done, i will keep this in the back of my mind for future reference.
if the tires can withstand a heavy load, it's good even great! Congratulations from the Czech Republic.
I have a piece of farm equipment I needed wheels for and this clearly is a great solution. Fantastic idea! Keep them coming. If these wheels are indeed for the donut cart I can't wait to see the completed cart and the final where you are selling them at the market.
ed sautter Cheers Ed - yes for the doughnut cart. I'm doing my best but there are just so many distractions!
👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic, very well done, Sir. Congrats for having all those skills.
Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you (humans, animals and plants).
You are a very talented woodworker. Loved your video.
They are just so beautiful made, thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family
Excellent video, and great narration too.
Really enjoy while watching your video. Thanks alot.
+Quý Nguyễn Thanks Quy!
Brilliant video! Thanks for sharing.
Impressed. Nice job.
I know you made this four years or so ago, but something I noticed when you make things, Tim, that I absolutely love you for, is that just like my husband and Me! you get almost done, then realize you've missed a step and have to go back. It is very heartening (is that a word? I hope so!) to know that even really clever people like you make these little mistakes. And you aren't so arrogant that you hide it. So thank you for being just okay like us. And not perfect. It is really great!
Thanks, Sharon. Do what is it you guys do? Apart from watching videos, of course?!
@@WayOutWestx2 My husband is a crane driver, and in that job he has to be pretty careful and can't miss any steps, but when we are working on jobs at home, that is a different story! I spend my days scouring fleece, dyeing it and then spinning it. I am disabled and can't get about very well, but thankfully spinning doesn't take any walking! Just the other day, I put all the fibre in to soak and realized 20 minutes in I had forgotten to add the synthrapol to help the dye bind. So I had to add it and then add another 20 minutes to the soak time just to make sure. Many's the time we have finished a job, got all the screws in, then realized we forgot the washers and have to take it all apart. It always made me feel a bit inept, but you have made me realize it is okay, because lots of people are like us, and I think it just means that we have very busy minds that are always thinking! Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. All kidding aside, I love your videos and the way you just make what you need. Thing is, you have to have a very clever mind to consider all the different parts of the machines you make, (the bandsaw, for example) to get the job done without blowing yourself up. I really do think you and Sandra are quite amazing people and I wish you much success. Take care.
Thank you, Sharon. We all have our struggles, don't we?
I just look around and think we're so lucky - to have the space and a workshop and tools and materials of all sorts. What I'm lacking now is the energy/motivation to do anything much. Oh, well. Perhaps it will come back.
@@WayOutWestx2 It will. You just need a bit of time. I have had the same problem and I know that by and by things get easier. Just take care of each other until then.
Love your videos. My playlist is looping and I saw wagon wheels but your voice. I also watch Engels Coach Shop on RUclips. His Buggy wheel repair videos are also new this week. Very different voice. Looking forward to the finished project.
You guys are havin way to much fun... You are a master craftsmen. We will be giving your channel a plug on our live show this Saturday. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK
+BikemanforU Thank you - now I'll have to stay up to silly o'clock to watch it : - )
Your do-it-yourself ability really shines thru in this video. Quite a sharp looking set of wheels sir.
bluemtnsman Why thank you!
Amazing Ideas 💡
excellent and beautiful work, very smart use of tools too! Thank you very much for the video:)
That was actually pretty amazing
Great work, Tim...👍
This is so cool. What a great idea.
just wanted to say thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. im planning to build a 4 wheel pedal bike and i was searching for a solution to this problem of the weak axels. im gonna build some wooden tires lololololol, thank you way out
Awesome woodworking skills and way to approach building a wooden wheel! Thank you!
Very nice work. I am inspired to do something similar in winter
Great video. Thanking you kindly. Cheers!
Another talented craftsman hard at work!!
Excellent work done., very much interesting during its work done, many many thanks.
A Pitza Cutter used as a measuring tool! Whao.
Computer CAD drawing for templates!
A BandSaw! Mine's made of wood :-))
A SPINDLE MOULDER!
A Lathe!
A Grinding Disc as a Spindle Gouge!
And There's that Hole boring tool that I used for a while before working out the points need to be inserted the same way!
You're a man of many talents sir.
Love the wheels
Quite a surprising Video!.
+Gordon Millar Thank you, Gordon. I know, I'm so lucky. Tools, materials, ideas - just never enough time!
Great looking
Very, very nice!
Fantastic video, very relaxing and educational; brightened my otherwise very dark week and now I know how to build wagon wheels.
Lovely job! It looks great.
A fantastic tutorial ! a joy to watch ! Your voice is a joy to listen too, It reminds me of the Jane Hissey narrator of the stories Old Bear (If ever you need another job) ? What part of The West of Ireland are you ?
Very Well presented! A pleasure to watch!
Great job there and very creative, they look really good well done.
brilliant video and very well put together.
I dooo like your thinking. fantastic.
Excellent !! Excellent !!
You are a real master !!
By God, that's a lovely bit of work! A clever idea and very well made.
Love it. Loaded with great ideas.
Hey bud loved this video been making carts for a few years now and wanted a way to include tires on my wheels did think of doing it this way but never got around to it thanks for the video
+Professorvapes happy to help!
I hope you finish your project one day I am the same so many things going on at once.
Very nice! Thank you!
this gives me inspiration to spray paint my remote control Subaru body shell
Very nicely done
Thanks, Momo
excellent m8,great video and awesome thinking,i was looking to make a few wheels for a project this has saved me a lot of headaches,,,thanks
Great! Good luck with yours : - )
Excellent work !
Well, Sir, I must congratulate you for many issues but mostly about the fact that you realised that when you had the thin metal spokes, the working spokes where those above the shaft and they all worked in TENSION and there were so many of them that while those on top held the load in tension all the rest of the thin metal spokes held the thin rim in a circular shape.
Now here you go using a thin rim with wooden spokes which work in compression with the lower ones taking the load. Now I admired the manner in which you realised that when the load is taken by two wooden spokes away from the vertical, the rim would not be able to take so much load and it would deform so you put in the in between pieces to retain the shape and use strengtheners to sandwich them ensuring that when the lower wooden spokes are not vertical , the arc in between can take the load as a Bridge.
Congratulations once again. As far as the" art" goes, you certainly created the right look.
+Carmel Pule' Thanks Carmel - but it really wasn't that difficult to figure out. Just common sense, isn't it?
This was a delightful video.
Very nice, I always wondered how to make wheels 😊
BRILLIANT!!!!! AMAZING!!!! AWESOME!!!! KUDOS!!!! THANK YOU THAT WAS MOST ENJOYABLE WATCHING I ONLY WISH I HAD YOUR SKILLS!!! THANK YOU
Absolutely incredible work! I'm inspired to attempt a project that I would never have thought possible as a result of watching some of your techniques. Bravo, my man, bravo!
That's pretty cool lookin'. Thanks for the video.
Excellent work !!
Marvellous ,thank you.
This type of project has been a real hit with woodworkers all around, thanks! BTW if you didn't know Hyezmar released his Woodworking Bible at no cost, just looking for feedback.
Great video!!! I want to see what you put the wheels on it would be great for an old hit miss mother or old farm equipment
Your ingenuity and videos never cease to amaze me. Such wisdom comes from experience. Good work sir!
***** Thank you!
Exelente trabajo , y que ingenio.
congratulations. Saludos desde Aguascalientes Mexico.0
You are awesome! (Send us presents?!) lol - Beth
Ben Matthews Ha! Well I never know quite what to write in that part : - )
Very nice, Tim ! Thank you for posting the vid.
I'd like to give that a try.
Very nice moulding head you have on the machine !
Thanks, rc
Very impressive! You make it look easy. Great project. I subscribed to check out the rest of your projects.
+The Casual Citizen thank you - hope you like them (3 more in the pipeline..!)
awesome job
Awesome work!
Absolutely brilliant build. Very well explained but...I'm going to have nightmares about that spindle moulder!!! What was the wood that you used? Cheers.
+David Handley I know, but it works.
Spruce for the fellows, David, and some old chestnut (I think) for the spokes - I didn't have anything else but I would choose ash or spruce for those too.
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What a brilliant and imaginative way to use the bicycle wheels. Clearly explained too!
How are the wheels surviving in use? Cheers, Andy.
Thanks Andy. Still not in use. Way too distracted by the guitar machine project (which pays much better than the doughnut cart will). I want to finish it anyway, for serious testing, but it will have to wait a little while longer.
Wow they look great
this was very amazing and creative...