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You may have me confused with someone else :)

I do have a $200 midi wood lathe, but I'd rather not get metal dust, grit and water all over the bed :)

Well, treadle powered tools have been around for a while too :D. I really did this to test the concept I had for a treadle powered grinder.



What I actually use now is a modern belt grinder....

Perfect, that would work really well. Thanks for the idea.

Dave

I actually had designed something like this as an alternative, but I also wanted to test the treadle concept... either way, I really think you'd need to have a heavy flywheel to keep things turning.

It's going ok I suppose... had four interviews this week (two of those were the 2nd interviews BTW :)).. So, we are just doing what we can in the meanwhile. Thanks for asking...

Now to answer some...

Actually, I was planning on casting a heavy flywheel (I think I'm using that right) to keep the momentum up and running the stone wheels in water troughs kind of like the video from the old sheffield...

Don't sweat it shooter, it is light right now for getting the momentum right. But I had the spare minutes and the scrap, so I wanted to work out the concept before casting a heavy flywheel.

Well, I had a few hours alone in the shop and a couple of grinding wheels.... SOOO I threw together something I've been wanting to try for some time now.

Total, I probably have 10 bucks into this,...