Royce Wise wrote:

Well, I rough cut my first single rotor e-shaft..
Easy to see why that shaft is so reliable.
It is made of a very dense close grained steel.
I knew there was a lot of metal to be removed.  Didn't realize the extent of that
though.  Took a while to cut it all off.

Now it just needs to be finish ground and heat treated.
Frank had noted that there was not enough material left to make the front main
journal without adding an inner bearing race.  This shaft seems to have about 1/16
inch over the journal diameter for the front bearing.
Will grind to the final size on a crank grinder, and see, but I think that it will
do just fine.  Get that journal induction heatreated, and I should have a fine
shaft.

It is a 13B shaft.  Using 12A rotor and rotor housing, with aluminum side
housings.  The 13B shaft was chosen because it already has lightening holes in the
ecentric, and lots of metal has to be cut off anyway..
Royce

Congratulations, Royce. What do you charge to do e-shafts for us other
6.5ers ? (:>}

Fred O.

 
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