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[QUOTE="largefreakatzero:778067"][QUOTE="Joshtruction:777917"]Well I built a windmill at my old house to power my tools and I bet I could have powered a lot more with it. There was an old CB tower in the back yard so I hung a flag from it to see which way the wind usually blows. Figured that out and took it down and started building. I am big into cars and working on them so I always have tons of shit laying around. I took an alternator and welded a timing gear (small gear) off of a chevy 350 to the shaft on the alternator. I made some brackets and mounted it inside the tower. Right above it I made 3 spots to hold bearings out of an axle housing from a suzuki samurai. I shimmed up, mounted the bearings, slide the samurai axle in place. I welded the large timing gear to the axle shaft and left about a foot of axle sticking out of the tower. I had to cut about a foot and a half off of the axle. I wen to the NB airport and started asking for people with crashed or damaged planes. I found a guy that gave me a 3 blade propeller that had some gouges in it and a few bends. I bent it somewhat straight and mounted it to the axle shaft. Guy gave me the thing because it can never be high speed balanced again so it would tear a planes motor apart. From that I ran a 4 gauge wire down to my garage. Inside I wired it in series to 8 car batteries. So there was no worry of overcharging I hooked up a voltage regulator. When the voltage got too high it would turn on an outlet I wired up. In the winter I would have my little electric heater plugged in, and summer I would have my AC hooked up. I wired up a 220 service to my invention and all was great until I burned out the alternator. I think it lost a bearing and kept heating up. Mod 2... I took it all back down, went to autozone, grabbed a new GM 1 wire alternator, hooked it all back up but this time I took a disk brake off of a mountain bike and welded it to the axle shaft. I made a quick caliper mount, and ran the cable down to the bottom. I hooked it up to a tech 77 bmx lever because it has a lock. I pull that, and it stops the windmill. No more spinning all the time, only when needed. Since the stuff was rusting bad being open and exposed I painted it all with POR 15. After that I built a quick 20 gauge tack welded box around it to protect it from the elements. I want to build one along the same lines but also ad a serpentine pulley to the alternator so I can run multiples. I think if I did like 6 alternators and found a better battery supply I could easily power a house.[/QUOTE] You are one clever bastard.[/QUOTE]
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