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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: slap bash on December 03, 2014, 06:51:18 pm

Title: New idea for a electric reel
Post by: slap bash on December 03, 2014, 06:51:18 pm
I would use a bicycle front peddle cog on a reel and use the back cog with a free wheel to be driven by a motor. Anyone tried this method to make a electric reel. It should not be to difficult to make it work.
Title: Re: New idea for a electric reel
Post by: Perfect Windows on December 03, 2014, 08:36:26 pm
I would use a bicycle front peddle cog on a reel and use the back cog with a free wheel to be driven by a motor. Anyone tried this method to make a electric reel. It should not be to difficult to make it work.

Attach motor to reel.  Simpler, safer.

Vin
Title: Re: New idea for a electric reel
Post by: Spruce on December 03, 2014, 09:15:30 pm
I would use a bicycle front peddle cog on a reel and use the back cog with a free wheel to be driven by a motor. Anyone tried this method to make a electric reel. It should not be to difficult to make it work.

Yes it would work, but. The problem I see it is that those free wheeling cogs are made for bicycles and designed for the hub with a rather large thread. You need to find the same thing that is as commercially available (cheap due to high production numbers) but with a centre hub that has a woodruff key to lock onto the shaft of the electric motor that will be driving it.

They are available but are very expense last time I looked.