Thread 2954262

How much of a pain in the ass would it be to have one or two engines and swap onto a generator, air compressor, water pump, winch, etc?

>>2954262 (OP)
10

>>2954262 (OP)
doable but if you have to ask...
1st logistical assache to consider would be the motor base mount

>>2954275
I definitely don't know how to do it yet, but I'm trying to figure out if it's worth spending the money and time to learn how. Like if it's simply a matter of fitting different shit to a drive shaft and can be done in less than 30 minutes... probably worth it. If it's requires almost rebuilding the thing? Probably not.

Just working with limited space and funds.

>>2954276
If you had everything running off of pulleys and belts it would be fairly simple. You'd have to make sure the pulley on each piece of equipment had the correct ratio compared to the pulley on the motor. You'd also have to build the correct mount on each piece of equipment to properly align the motor. You could also use a step pulley on the motor to make it easier to find the correct ratios needed for each piece of equipment. After that it would just be a matter of pulling the belt off, moving the motor, bolting it down, and fitting the belt again.

That said, pulleys can get pricey and fabbing the correct mount can be a pain in the ass.

it reads that you dont actually have any of the aforementioned equipment and are just fantasizing on an eastern kazak reed intertwining imageboard. which also leads me to believe that you definitely dont own a drill press or welder. so youd be building everything from bigboi erector set aka unistrut but thats likely out of your budget anyways. so this boils down to how do i use pallet boards and stolen milkcrates to do it
check your cards fellers

>>2954262 (OP)
Discover lineshaft power distribution.

>>2954262 (OP)

This is NOT real life...

I've thought about it. I think a pto shaft coupler would be ideal to hook the engine up. Maybe have the engine setup on a larger baseplate that takes a couple larger bolts further away from the base for ease of snugging them down. Each piece of equipment would have to have a bearing supported input shaft though, so it'd be an assache in that regard. But you would forego the assache of having 100 small engines to keep running and could just quick swap one to many different applications.

Those are way different applications. Unless you were using an inverter generator, you'd need a way to automatically govern the engine's throttle/speed in order to generate stable power, and for a winch you'd either need a gearbox with a really low ratio or a hydraulic setup like for PTO truck winches. Plus the mounting and everything else that's been mentioned would be a nightmare. I get the allure of having a power pack but you can find small engines in the trash often, and usually attached to those machines you named.

>>2954448
God forbid someone begins and learns things

>>2954308
>>2954497
>>2954576

I got the idea after seeing these, dog drive on the engine turns a shaft that runs a submersible centrifugal pump. I had seen chainsaw attachments, including a surface pump but everything else was like a post auger or cutoff saw, too. Wondering if it would be possible to work on the same principle for larger four stroke equipment. It seems crazy no one's done something commercially yet if it is.

>>2954262 (OP)
you mean like they did it back ye olde days? one of pic relared, throw a huge belt over the flywheel and it drove sawmills, threshers, pumps, lathes, air compressors, everything that needed rotational power...
the problem with a generator is to how to keep a steady rpm under variable load if not the voltage and frequency will be all over the place and this will toast most electronics.

>>2954262 (OP)
You will need gearbox for each one and be able to mount them.

>>2954589
Flex shafts have a lot of issues. They are not good at power transmission and ones rated for more than a few horsepower are really expensive.