bob2 posted:So you have not yet tried the entire mechanism without the flywheel? Will you put a different motor in there and drive this flywheel? That would be an equally valid test of the flywheel. If it is smooth, then I get to eat that crow.
Don't forget - that anemic little high speed motor probably went to triple its normal rpm when you held it in your hand. It was screaming like a JT8D probably.
I answered this above and didn't direct the answer to you properly. It didn't run abnormally high because I only put 8 volts DC to it. I don't have another motor that fits the drive. Mine have gears on them. The engine is back together. I already snapped off the whistle by accident and am upset.
I will test it and make a video just for you, the very next time I take it apart. I'll just have to rig something up just for that test to replace the flywheel drive to u-joint assembly. Tubing would need to be multiples slid over each other. So it would fit the motor shaft on one end and a square protrusion out the other or fit over the whole 2nd u-joint at the gear tower.
You make it sound easier to do than it is.
