Wheel jig

[NcGunny]

Does anybody have the plans for making the wheel jig? I have seen the pic but not.actual construction instructions for it. Thanks

[Skyediamonds]

Gunny,
Good morning from Reno,NV. Read your request for making wheels. I presume you're referring to the spoke-wheel variety. There's another website called: VirtualAerodrome.com in which one of the modelers is scratch building a Loening amphibian. He has basically laid out in photographic detail along with captions a step-by-step process to making a custom set of wheels. Like this site, you'll have to register, but it's easy & free. Good luck. Sky

[David Lewis]

I've posted instuctions here: http://balsamodels.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2697
for making turned wheels.
The 5th post shows a drawing of the wheel shaping jig.

[NcGunny]

Dave,
Thats the jig I looked at before..So....to get the inside radius did you just wing it or is there a template floating somewhere? Also if there is a template I could make the radius section enlarge or collapse to do several scales.

[NcGunny]

Skye,
Saw the guys photo build. Wish he had gave credit to the author who originally perfected this making dragster rims in a Scale Car book published in the early 80's. Almost photo to photo build, except original author used wire for the spokes. Nice build anyways.

[rayl]

Gunny: I'm the guy that had the photos for the spoked wheel jig over on the V/A site. Never having been a car guy, I couldn't give credit to a author/article that I've never seen. I firmly believe that there are very few things under the sky that are new (with the exception of the guys at Apple coming up with toys that nobody really needs), but if there is ever a direct link between what I am doing and what I have seen somewhere, credit is always given. Thanks for the compliment by the way.

[NcGunny]

Pretty much nothing you could do today that hasnt been done before..lol. wait...you need to add some valve stems,and cut some treads into that tubing. It has never ceased to amaze me at the length we will go to recreate authentic detail. I went nuts once thinking nobody had done a speedo cluster with real needles..5 hours it took on a cluster and my buddy says.."its been done before..Issue #..car title..I was devastated.

[Bill Gaylord]

A few years ago I built a set of spoked wheels for an Avro type F, and another 3" set that I still have sitting around. I found a few sites with some information. If I remember correctly, Peter Rake's was the most useful. Here's a few links to those sites, including the wheels I constructed.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthre ... 523&page=6
http://www.easybuiltmodels.com/spoked.htm
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186335
http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68457

[NcGunny]

Thxs Bill.
Some decent info on there. I ordered 3 different scales tire rim combo's today. Going to try and make the jig scaleable I guess,

[David Lewis]

"So.... to get the inside radius did you just wing it or is there a template floating somewhere?"

I scale the inside radius off the side view of the full size drawing. If that is not available, I estimate the radius from photos. If you look at the perspective sketch of the sanding jig, the balsa disc with the sandpaper facing makes the inside radius. The outermost ring of the wheel blank already has a hole in the center same diameter as the wheel (hub) so not much sanding is required.