You are very lucky the motor has the female spline. That is much harder to make. Those motors have no front bearing! So, you have to make up a motor end plate, with bearings, mounting flange to the motor frame, and your output shaft.
I hope you have a lathe, too, to make the plate. You will pretty much need a dividing head to turn the shaft for the spline teeth, too.
Jon
Hello everyone,
I have a project that will be using a pair of golf cart motors. The ones I have looked at all have a female splined shaft of either 10 or 19 splines.
If it turns out I have to make this shaft myself, what type of steel would be best? I will be using a table top milling machine to spline this shaft on one end and a keyway for a pully on the other. Any info and help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance, op
Looks like, at least on a couple of those, that you could mount a sprocket hub (or pulley hub) on the "outside" of the shaft rather than trying to use the internal splines.... might work better.... Ken.
Hi,
Thanks for that info, I was unaware that there was no front bearing. I have a lathe and a dividing head as well, so hopefully this will not turn into a nightmare project. I also have a rotary table which is probably what I will use to make the new front section for the motor on the mill. Looks like I am going to be making a shaft and a front plate. Not to mention all the fabricating on everythign else.
Thanks,
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